Greg Gum, freelance Silverlight developer and trainer, just wrote a great piece on his personal experiences with Ria Services and DevForce.
At the time, I choose Ria Services over DevForce, primarily because they looked similar on the outside, yet Ria Services was free and I was a startup.
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I now regret not having started with DevForce ... Had I known these things at the start, I would have gone with DevForce from the beginning.
A valuable read to be sure:
Edited by johnl - 01-Feb-2011 at 3:11pm