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Archives / 2010 / June
  • RIA Services - Solutions to 'The remote server returned an error: NotFound'

    Isn't it great when the answers are out there?  I finally got a Google hint and overcame this one.  So here are a few reasons that I encountered and overcame this error.  We can easily reproduce (and often fix) this error.  This occurs on the asynchronous return from a Silverlight 4 to RIA services.  It's as if for any of the few reasons it fails, the call just gets aborted and we get a head-scratching "Not Found".  We can sometimes even hit a debugger breakpoint in the Domain Service that gets the IQueryable call and wonder why the server appears to work in the debugger.

  • Silverlight OOB - CheckAndDownloadUpdateAsync

    I’ve been looking at the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser support and the easy update feature.  In the current version, we’re given the method, CheckAndDownloadUpdateAsync().  This method does a lot for us but is rather limited.  With an asynchronous method and no parameters, what can we expect?  With a huge team in Redmond working for us and trying to meet deadlines, we get what we get.  In the spirit of sharing, here’s what I see so far.