In my post on RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture, a while back (right after MIX09), I mentioned that I like to think of RIA Services as RAD for RIA. At that point we had a very early preview of framework bits with little tools support. A large part of jumpstarting your development actually centers around good tooling. VS2010 brings tooling for RIA Services (now: WCF RIA Services).
Scott Hanselman demonstrated some key features used in building a Contacts application (as shown on the right) during the keynote at PDC09.
The latest version of RIA Services is now available for download. It works on .NET 4 and VS2010 as well. You can also check out a video tutorial on using RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010.
In this post, I want to highlight the range of tooling features that span from the start to getting an application up and running.