I am a .NET / C# back end guy. I am working on a app that will have about 200 different data entry screens. For me exposing DTO as a collection for CRUD (IUpdatable and IQueryable) is the easy part, can do it in sleep :-).

What I am trying to decide is what type of front end technology will allow me to develop these data entry screens fast. They don't have to be fancy but they are not just plain grid either and on average they have about 15 form fields and some client side data validation (no db look up)

Options I am looking at are

1. Use ExtJS on the front and REST / JSON on the back.

2. ASP.NET RIA but I do not know SL (Well XAML)

3. Plain ASP.NET / MVC

One idea I had was the DTO will contain the meta data about the form (As Attributes) and the form can be dynamically generated, but i do not want to reinvent the wheel if their is an easy way.

I have looked at RAD software but all of them look at the DB and generate screens. I rather want some thing that can look at my DTO and generate screens.

Jay