Contents tagged with Silverlight
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Dynamically set WCF Endpoint in Silverlight
When you add a WCF service reference to a Silverlight Application, it generates the ServiceReference.ClientConfig file where the URL of the WCF endpoint is defined. When you add the WCF service reference on a development computer, the endpoint URL is on localhost. But when you deploy the Silverlight client and the WCF service on a production server, the endpoint URL no longer is on localhost instead on some domain. As a result, the Silverlight application fails to call the WCF services. You have to manually change the endpoint URL on the Silverlight config file to match the production URL before deploying live. Now if you are deploying the Silverlight application and the server side WCF service as a distributable application where customer install the service themselves on their own domain then you don’t know what will be the production URL. As a result, you can’t rely on the ServiceReference.ClientConfig. You have to dynamically find out on which domain the Silverlight application is running and what will be the endpoint URL of the WCF service. Here I will show you an approach to dynamically decide the endpoint URL.
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Silverlight Pagecast - Keep an eye on Silverlight stuffs
It looks like a lot is happening on the web related to Silverlight. It's pretty difficult to keep track of all the websites, blogs, videos, del.icio.us links that get published every day or so. So, I created a Silverlight Pagecast (www.pageflakes.com/silverlight) to stay on top of everything's related to Silverlight. In one page, you get to see Silverlight.net website, MSDN's Silverlight Page, read most popular blogs on Silverlight, rss feeds from Silverlight websites, delicious bookmarks made by community on Silverlight, any blog mention on the web about Silverlight, videos on Silverlight and many more. As I discover more and more stuffs, I will keep adding them on this pagecast.