Comments on: Silverlight Tip of the Day #29 – Configuring Service Reference to Back to LocalHost http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/06/09/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-29-configuring-service-reference-to-back-to-localhost/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Josh Einstein http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/06/09/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-29-configuring-service-reference-to-back-to-localhost/comment-page-1/#comment-2739 Josh Einstein Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:38:02 +0000 http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/06/09/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-29-configuring-service-reference-to-back-to-localhost/#comment-2739 Here's another awesome tip... if your web service is hosted on the same server that is serving your Silverlight application, you can use a relative (to the xap) path to the WCF service. You'll have to make this change in your ServiceReferences.clientconfig manually and you might get some IDE errors when refreshing the service reference but it works great at runtime. (not sure how to post XML here...) (client) (endpoint name="BillingDataEntryService" address="../Billing.svc" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="secureHttp" contract="Models.BillingDataEntry.BillingDataEntryService" /) (/client) Here’s another awesome tip… if your web service is hosted on the same server that is serving your Silverlight application, you can use a relative (to the xap) path to the WCF service. You’ll have to make this change in your ServiceReferences.clientconfig manually and you might get some IDE errors when refreshing the service reference but it works great at runtime.

(not sure how to post XML here…)

(client)
(endpoint name=”BillingDataEntryService”
address=”../Billing.svc”
binding=”basicHttpBinding”
bindingConfiguration=”secureHttp”
contract=”Models.BillingDataEntry.BillingDataEntryService” /)
(/client)

]]> By: Snowman http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/06/09/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-29-configuring-service-reference-to-back-to-localhost/comment-page-1/#comment-2729 Snowman Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:39:23 +0000 http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/06/09/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-29-configuring-service-reference-to-back-to-localhost/#comment-2729 Ah, yea, I found it thanks! Ah, yea, I found it thanks!

]]> By: Bigsby http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/06/09/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-29-configuring-service-reference-to-back-to-localhost/comment-page-1/#comment-2719 Bigsby Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:38:36 +0000 http://www.michaelsnow.com/2010/06/09/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-29-configuring-service-reference-to-back-to-localhost/#comment-2719 The used port is also on Web Application Project Properties on Web vertical tab. It is dynamically set but you can set it manually. The used port is also on Web Application Project Properties on Web vertical tab. It is dynamically set but you can set it manually.

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