Wcf and silverlight how to add custom information to a. It says it downloads successfully, but when i got to watch say netflix or use it for one of my online lectures it says that i havent downloaded it. Microsoft silverlighttm is a crossbrowser, crossplatform plugin for delivering the next generation of. Server use session to manage service instances, not to store some general data like asp. I have read several articles about saving data believe or not it is much better in silverlight. I would like to create and maintain a session after user login in silverlight and do the following. Net session and store the data in session on the server. Its looking more and more like theres a battle between the windows presentation foundation team and the silverlight team and silverlight is winning. I thought of creating a singleton dispatchertimer that would start on silverlight application startup, would fetch session. So solution for this problem is to use custombinding in nfig which works fine at both the side. I recently gave an introductory session on windows communication. When wcf service is configured for per session instance mode, logical session between client and service will be maintained. On further calls with wcf, the session information needs to be passed from silverlight to wcf. Timeout in calling wcf service from silverlight app i have a silverlight application that is trying to call a wcf service.
Net though and im more interested by wpf silverlight. In this post i am going to describe what we are doing and why. Application architecture guide chapter 16 rich internet. Silverlight is both well established and provides functionality and features. Creating a silverlightenabled wcf service visual studio. Silverlight 2 beta 2 introduces another way to push data from a server to a client using windows communication foundation wcf. Session management with aspnetcompatibilityenabled for this, there are two possibilities. Additional information about silverlight client timeout value. Deploying wcf and silverlight applications on iis 5 and 7. Overview of rest in wcf and the wcf rest starter kit rob bagby presenting his session at pdc 2.
Lets say we have an expense management application and we have a client build with silverlight. Using forums offtopic posts do not post here in wcf. Here is an example of the entire server side system. Silverlight provides several different ways to access data stored in remote locations. Jan 06, 2012 before you do this, you need to add the namespace of the wcf service namespace in our case silverlightdemo. A clientserver architecture built on wcf, silverlight, and ms access for my grandpas company to manage his customers, sales, and inventory.
Contribute to foxjazzwcf filemanager development by creating an account on github. A typical silverlight wcf architecture looks a little like this. Web project that hosts the silverlight client project and contains the javascript code that makes the websocket calls within the hosting aspx page. Silverlight controls cant access session variables directly as silverlight controls are client side controls. Pushing data to a silverlight client with a wcf duplex. With in case the soap service requests a new login, we are redirected to the login page, how can we do when using wpf or silverlight. Timeout value from the server using wcf and would run for session. If youre going to create a soaponly service, i find this approach to be more flexible and support better serialization than the. Timeout in calling wcf service from silverlight app. I will create a sample application and explain things stepbystep.
Session management using wcf silverlight solutions. Wcf in mono was originally developed as part of the olive module in our source. Demoservicereference now run the silverlight application. Open new silver light application with webpage as hosting page. Before refactoring the wcf aspects of the sample, i upgraded the applications to visual studio 2010 and silverlight 4.
To check the existence of iis, click on start run and type inetmgr in the command window. In this section, we will see how we can use wcf service with silverlight. You must create a separate web site for the silverlight application. If you are saying, just show me the bits, then just november 1, 2010 by dotnetblogger. Custom binding with binary encoding is nice if you want to do binary encoding of the message. I have developed a wcf service which is hosted on my home server, i also have clients which can connect using windows security on the soap messages. Restricting access to your wcf service to a known silverlight. We have to set the session variable in the wcf service as follows. For example one simple way is use persession behavior of service in wcf that will manage session, but problem is that, persession requires wsbinding and silverlight does not support it wsbinding.
When the client creates new proxy to particular service instance, a dedicated service instance will be provided to the client. Silverlight application with management entity framework and. Lets take this example to fit our explanation process. Some potential solutions i have come across include. If iis is installed, the iis management console opens up. A couple days ago i started converting our silverlight 4 apps website and iishosted wcf v4 service to use windows authentication. I want when any body wants to change the password, logon to system before. Today, in this article lets concentrate on another silverlight application, whereby communicating with a wcf service to perform some operation. Configure a wcf service with ssl and consume from silverlight. However, there is an easier and perhaps more performant way to handlle this. Rias run in a browser plugin, such as microsoft silverlight.
I have pasted the code snippet below, that would work fine with silverlight 4 client to pass custom header to wcf service. Wcf login service validate and create session in your db session. Find answers to session management using wcf silverlight from the expert community at experts exchange. Sep 15, 2010 this makes the life with wcf much easier. Oct 07, 2010 a couple days ago i started converting our silverlight 4 apps website and iishosted wcf v4 service to use windows authentication. Silverlight app store global login variable for latter use. Naresh taduri fullstack developer, javascript developer. Data can be pulled from web services and restful services and even pushed from servers down to clients using sockets see my previous articles on sockets here, here and here. Now the problem is that when i access this silverlight app using ie8 or chrome, then i get a login popup asking for username password.
Silverlight, xaml and wcf,wpf for devoloping approval process module. Jan 06, 2012 now the wcf service is ready to be hosted and used by the client. Binary encoding often offers performance gains over text encoding. Basically there are silverlight sdk assemblies that are to be embedded in the app. Session management in silverlight and wcf service burnignorance. This article is about session management in wcf and silverlight. So solution for this problem is to use custombinding in.
The second part of the same silverlight tutorials gives step by step instructions on how to create a wcf service to retrieve session data to the silverlight controls. In simple terms silverlight 5 applications enable us to create native windows which can run outside of the browser. The first thing to do is check your nfig and see if the wcf service you have added to your web project has session enabled. Silverlight session management, error handling, and unit test. And both the server and silverlight cant load the whole video in memorythe videos are really big thats why i want to streamor buffer. This article will explain you the code and settings required in different files. At the time of writing, the latest versions are wcf 3. If the service and the silverlight app are served from the same web site and you are using silverlight 4, you can accomplish this without a cross domain policy file by.
Silverlight app send authenticate to wcf login service. Additional information about silverlight client timeout. Silverlight significantly reduces development and deployment costs and provides enhanced web audio and video streaming and playback using industryleading windows media technologies. I used the silverlight enabled wcf service template in visual studio.
Silverlight session management, error handling, and unit. Windows hpc server deployment, management, and administration. Session management in wcf and silverlight 9232019 12. Wcf session does not mainly rely on session id like asp. Creating a silverlight application to consume a wcf service. To begin, silverlight runs in any internet browser on any operating system linux, mac. If your session management isnt robust, the user could get this once and then ping the page constantly to keep the. Wcf sessions are created and terminated by service client.
The goal was to secure the service and data, get the users credentials down to the data tier and database, and provide some auditing and general security without asking for credentials already available for. How to create and consume wcf service in silverlight. Even after entering the details and selecting the remember my credentials option it popups up again the second time. Calling wcf services in silverlight 4 visual studio magazine. This article will explain you the code and settings required in different files like nfig, service class, service interface etc. Windows communication foundation wcf provides functionality that is. Rather than let good research go to waste, i am posting the steps here. Silverlight, wcf, security and things you might not know.
This guide does not discuss using silverlight with wcf ria services, because at the time of writing of this article, microsoft has discontinued support of this technology. To do this you have to alter nfig file for the web site that hosts the service. View naresh taduris profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Net builtin session management with browser cookies and a wcf web service to interact between silverlight. A common sharedclasses project, where a class is shared between the wcf service and the silverlight client project. Sep 30, 2011 lets say we have an expense management application and we have a client build with silverlight. In this application you wil know how to use remote user class and chat session class. After entering the details 2nd time, my app opens up and works fine. Configuring iis for silverlight applications microsoft docs. Net to create silverlight applications to be more precise, developers can use xaml and vb. Previously it was running with silverlight 4, recently client was updated to 5, then i have uninstall 5 and installed silverlight 4 build 4. While this prepares the project for use in visual studio 2010, it doesnt change the assembly targets, so i upgraded each project to target the microsoft. On successful login, create a session object and store session id, user id, user name, session status. In visual studio 2010 data will be downloaded much faster than now close to real time data etc.
The goal was to secure the service and data, get the users credentials down to the data tier and database, and provide some auditing and general security without asking for credentials already available for an intranet application. Net, a particular field with in the header or body of a group of messages can also be considered as a part of session. Im coding an authentication service that have multiple methods. In fact, this is the default binding that is created when you use a silverlight enabled wcf file template in visual studio 2008 to create a wcf service. Net session timeout notification in silverlight 4 stack.
Silverlight not working on my mac i am able to download silverlight onto my mac, but i cannot get it to work. Netbased media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web. This article shows how to use wcf service with silverlight. Keep an eye on forth coming articles on silverlight. You can add the wcf service to the test web project thats added by default when you create a new silverlight 2 project or to another web project. Session management in silverlight and wcf service silverlight controls cant access session variables directly as silverlight controls are client side controls. Net session can be easily configured to be used with a wcf service in order to cache userspecific items and avoid repeated roundtrips to. A common sharedclasses project, where a class is shared between the wcf service and the silverlight. Ill cover the following topics in the code samples below. How i can have a session id in wcf service stack overflow.
Setup silverlight application with wcf service to run over. Understanding session management in wcf dot net tricks. How to configure the service from the expert community at experts exchange. In this fifth part of this series, we shall continue exploring 3d graphics in silverlight 5. On linux andor mac, the entire ui must be implemented. Then add a new silverlight enabled wcf service to the web project, create some operation contract, and add a service reference to the silverlight project. More generally speaking, how do you handle a refused connection. May 31, 2008 silverlight and wcf 31 05 2008 with the release of silverlight 2 beta 1, now developers can use. Net built in session management with browser cookies and a wcf web service to interact between silverlight and the server end.
Lets get this implemented practically for a better idea of. Dec 20, 2014 below is a guide to constructing an application using expression blend and silverlight for the frontend which obtains data from a wcf service and sql server backend. Silverlight not working on my mac microsoft community. Microsoft silverlight is a crossbrowser, crossplatform plugin for delivering richer user experiences on the web. Once the silverlight tools are installed for visual studio youll see the silverlight enabled wcf service option. Use silverlight in the 32bit internet explorer process on x64 systems. I am having a customer object, so, defined one customer. Silverlight ssl wcf service business logic database silverlight wcf service in red represent potential security holes and the areas in green are your last line of defense. This involved upgrading the project and solution files with the wizard. Jul 15, 2009 i used the silverlightenabled wcf service template in visual studio. Design either for concurrency in your state management, or to detect and prevent multiple sessions. Session management in wcf and silverlight nov 07, 2011.
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