Combiningg WCF, ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight   

I have run into a frustrating problem. First I will need to cover some 
background. I recently installed Windows Server 2008 Standard on a PC on the 
network. I installed IIS, SQL Server 2005 and a few other packages. I also 
have the ability to get to this server from outside the network via a 
Dynamic DNS updating tool. Everything is visible on the LAN and from outside 
the LAN.

On IIS7 I have a website running two applications. One is called services 
and the other is called site. Thus to get to each individual application, I 
browse here (or via IP or via the dynDNS domain).

http://myserver:8888/services
http://myserver:8888/site

On the services application I have a simple WCF service running that uses 
some LINQ to return a list of data from a database. This part works great 
under certain conditions.

On the website I have a simple ASP.NET 3.5 site and a Silverlight control 
that references the service (via the outside domain, NOT via the internal 
LAN IP or computer name).

When I browse to the site like this:
http://myserver:8888/site/Members.aspx

everything works fine. The silverlight shows, the data is retrieved and all 
is well in the world.

However, when I visit via the outside domain setup...
http://mysite.dyndns.org:8888/site/Members.aspx

the silverlight shows and the page renders but no data is retrieved. I am at 
a loss as to why this is happening and how to fix it. I have read that it 
could be a cross domain issue, but putting the files on the server was to no 
avail. Well, actually I am led to believe it fixed a previous problem. Note 
that the WSDL/XSD created for the service referenced the internal computer 
by its name. When fixing it to a static resource that referenced the 
external url, it also did not fix the issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you want to see the source or 
visit the site and feel you can help, please feel free to contact me 
privately.

Thank you!

-- 
John Sedlak
Microsoft MVP - Xna/DirectX

john@focusedgames.com
http://focusedgames.com

date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:46:25 -0400   author:   John Sedlak

Re: Combiningg WCF, ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight   

Oops. Should read "Combining".

Never-the-less, I touched something today while trying to add a new service 
and now the services don't work over LAN or the internet.

-- 
John Sedlak
Microsoft MVP - Xna/DirectX

john@focusedgames.com
http://focusedgames.com

"John Sedlak"  wrote in message 
news:540ED176-6ABC-4190-9599-95E4CE1E0059@microsoft.com...
> I have run into a frustrating problem. First I will need to cover some 
> background. I recently installed Windows Server 2008 Standard on a PC on 
> the network. I installed IIS, SQL Server 2005 and a few other packages. I 
> also have the ability to get to this server from outside the network via a 
> Dynamic DNS updating tool. Everything is visible on the LAN and from 
> outside the LAN.
>
> On IIS7 I have a website running two applications. One is called services 
> and the other is called site. Thus to get to each individual application, 
> I browse here (or via IP or via the dynDNS domain).
>
> http://myserver:8888/services
> http://myserver:8888/site
>
> On the services application I have a simple WCF service running that uses 
> some LINQ to return a list of data from a database. This part works great 
> under certain conditions.
>
> On the website I have a simple ASP.NET 3.5 site and a Silverlight control 
> that references the service (via the outside domain, NOT via the internal 
> LAN IP or computer name).
>
> When I browse to the site like this:
> http://myserver:8888/site/Members.aspx
>
> everything works fine. The silverlight shows, the data is retrieved and 
> all is well in the world.
>
> However, when I visit via the outside domain setup...
> http://mysite.dyndns.org:8888/site/Members.aspx
>
> the silverlight shows and the page renders but no data is retrieved. I am 
> at a loss as to why this is happening and how to fix it. I have read that 
> it could be a cross domain issue, but putting the files on the server was 
> to no avail. Well, actually I am led to believe it fixed a previous 
> problem. Note that the WSDL/XSD created for the service referenced the 
> internal computer by its name. When fixing it to a static resource that 
> referenced the external url, it also did not fix the issue.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you want to see the source or 
> visit the site and feel you can help, please feel free to contact me 
> privately.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -- 
> John Sedlak
> Microsoft MVP - Xna/DirectX
>
> john@focusedgames.com
> http://focusedgames.com

date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:55:21 -0400   author:   John Sedlak