WPF to WCF Permission issue - wpf

I have created a WPF browser application that I wish to connect to a WCF service. The service is in the same solution as the WPF application. It is the default service that Visual Studio creates with a method called GetData (int)
I am attempting to call this service with the following code:
var client = new Service1.Service1Client();
client.GetData(10);
I get the following error on the above line (client.GetData(10);)
{"Request for the permission of type 'System.Net.WebPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed."}
Please help

This solution from Scott Lanford worked for me:
http://www.codeexperiment.com/post/Debugging-XBAPWCF-Applications.aspx
Quote:
The possible reasons for this error are numerous but in this case it was because the default Debug->Start Action for an XBAP project is "Start browser in URL", where the URL simply points to the .xbap file on disk (e.g. C:\projects\myproject\bin\debug\myproject.xbap).
For a partial trust XBAP application to communicate with a WCF service it must be deployed from the same domain and port as the WCF service. The way to solve this dilemma is to fake the XBAP URL by starting the XBAP application with PresentationHost.exe and supplying the XBAP URL (copied from the "Start browser with URL" value) via the debug parameter and the WCF service URL via the debugSecurityZoneURL parameter.
For example the debugging options for your XBAP project should look something like this:
Start Action -> Start external program = %windir%\system32\PresentationHost.exe
Start Options -> Command line arguments = -debug "c:\projects\myproject\bin\debug\MyProject.xbap" -debugSecurityZoneUrl "http://localhost:2022"

You need to setup a client access policy on the server. Running in the browser comes with a bunch of security limitations.
I think this article should get you the information you need, http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=208&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1.

Related

Domain Service error when called from silverlight

I am hosting a silverlight app in an existing mvc view. I am getting the infamous
"remote server returned an error-> notfound"
when I try to access a domain service defined in the mvc application.
In fiddler I'm getting this error:
The IControllerFactory 'DrcMvcWeb.Infrastructure.DrcControllerFactory' did not return a controller for the name 'ClientBin'.
Do I need to map a route to the domain service call? This is my first experience with silverlight and RIA services and so far the experience hasn't been good.
It looks like it's including the ClientBin folder (the location where your SL app is hosted) in the path to the service. You should be able to use a relative path (from that point) to walk up the tree and back down to your actual service location. Something like:
string urlPath = new Uri(Application.Current.Host.Source, "../Services/MyService").AbsoluteUri;

WCF error with hosting of a SL4 Navigation application

I have a SL navigation application, that currently runs on a shared hosting package with a 3rd party ISP. I can login, and register using the ASP.NET membership and role providers.
I have now setup a dedicated server, on which only my app will run. It does not yet have a domain name that points to it... I access it via an IP address.
I've copied the entire site (including the ClientBin and all the XAP's) to the new server, but the Authentication and Registration services don't work... they just return NotFound.
When I check Fiddler on the working site, this service is called :
www.myaddress.com/ClientBin/MyApp-Web-AuthenticationService.svc/binary/Login
which of course succeeds. However, on the other site, the fiddler trace looks the same (because I just copied the site) :
123.123.123.123/ClientBin/MyApp-Web-AuthenticationService.svc/binary/Login
but, the call fails with NotFound. Fiddler reports it as HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error. When I open
http://localhost/ClientBin/MyApp-Web-AuthenticationService.svc/binary/Login
on the server, I get the HTTP/1.1 500, as well as this description :
Handler "svc-Integrated" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list
Which leads me to believe that there is something wrong with my IIS config, as the exact same code is working on another system.
What is a "bad module"? How do I fix it?
Normally this type of error is that ASP.Net is not activated or that a handler for svc is not registered or registered correctly.
In your case is looks a bit different. It could be that you have .net framework 4.0 code that you are trying to run in a .net framework 2.0 application pool.
IIS 500 errors often show up with more information in the Windows Event log - if you can somehow get access to that?
Also I've noticed that often the server will actually send debugging output back to the client that everything seems to ignore. Have you checked the entire raw response that is coming back from the server to see if there are any clues there?

Open Notepad from Silverlight 4 Business Application

I have a Silvleright Business Application, Silverlight_BussApp.
It has the Silverlight_BussApp project and the Silverlight_BussApp.Web project.
I need to open Notepad after populating it in the code behind on a button click event.
I cannot make this an out of browser application.
So since Silverlight does not allow me to do it, I created a WCF Service in the Silverlight_BussApp.Web project
and invoked it through a proxy in the Silverlight Project. This works fine.
The code in the WCF Service is:
public void openFileWithNotepad(string filename)
{
try
{
if (File.Exists(filename))
{
Process.Start("notepad.exe", filename);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show(
"I was unable to locate the following file: " + filename,
"File Not Found");
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw e;
}
}
Now I need to use this openFile functionality in more than one Silverlight Project.
So I created a "WCF service Project" and created a WCF Service, hosted it on IIS, and created a proxy in the Silverlight project. To my dismay, the file does not open and it keeps giving me the "File Not Found" Error.
Can somebody help me figure out how I can make this a reusable functionality for all my Silverlight projects?
Why is it when I use the same code in a WCF Service hosted on IIS it does not work while it works perfectly when hosted in the same solution of the Silverlight project?
For starters, the code in the Silverlight_BussApp.Web project is going to be executed on the server, while the code in the Silverlight_BussApp project is going to be executed on the client. During development, the client and the server are ostensibly the same machine -- when you click "Run" in Visual Studio, a development web server starts up on your machine and hosts your .Web project, while the Silverlight application runs in your browser.
When your application is deployed, the client (i.e., your browser) will most likely be on a different physical machine than the server (i.e., IIS). So, ignoring any other security restrictions that may be imposed by IIS (which is probably why you're getting a "File Not Found" error), the call to Process.Start would start Notepad on an entirely different machine than the one you're using.
Try using a SaveFileDialog to save whatever you want to the client's machine, then tell them to open the resulting file.

Silverlight web service call not even hitting servers

I have a custom proxy class for a single WCF web-service (takes a string in, sends a string back). The asynchronous web service call works great from my Windows Form app. However, when I call it from a test Silverlight app I get an error: Hresult 0x80000012. This error is for Extension Attributes on files I believe... Go figure.
Using Fiddler I can confirm that no traffic is making it to IIS which is hosting the service, so it isn't the usual cross-domain restriction issue. I've tried using both "localhost" (which works in the Windows Forms app) and a name defined in my hosts file just in case "localhost" was causing the problem.
I've tested it by making the async call from the UI thread and also from a thread-pool queue item with the same results.
The proxy code is basically just simplified down from what the MS proxy generator creates, setting up bindings and settings programatically instead of via config files, and I use basically the same source to compile normal .Net and Silverlight versions of the libraries involved. (Now, the MS proxy code it is based on is from a WCF web service, not from the RIA template code, so maybe there are differences there...)
Four days of fruitless search on this one. Any help or suggestions would be wildly appreciated!
Figured it out. I was using (stupidly) a backslash in part of the URL that I used to set up the service call. Most of the interior parts of the MS code handled that ok and transposed them to forward slashes -- on Windows Forms everything worked seamlessly in fact. However, the Silverlight libraries couldn't handle it and threw the very helpful "HResult 0x80000012" error.
Changing my backslashes to slashes seems to have fixed the problem!

Deployed silverlight enabled WCF Service Stops Working when development server is stopped

I have a silverlight business aplication that gets data from silverlight enabled webservice.
When I run the application in dev environment, it works fine.
when i deploy the application and the Asp.net web development server is working, then to the application works fine.
But when I stop the development server, the application can't access a service.
My questions are:
When I deploy a silverlight business application, doesn't the service get deployed and get started.
The endpoint address in my ServiceReferences.Clientconfig file is endpoint address="http://localhost:9702/MyWebservice.scv. Do I need to change this?
The enpoint address in the web.config is blank.
Appreciate your help
Because the WCF client code is declared as a "partial" class, what I've been doing to this point is creating another c# partial class file to host a GetClient() method on it. You'll notice that the code is taking into account the port that the service is on... in a few of the environments that I've posted or will be posting to, as well as the development environment, the application is not always on port 80.
Namespace Project.Service
{
public partial class ServiceClient
{
public static ServiceClient GetClient()
{
return new ServiceClient("CustomBinding_Service",
new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress(new Uri(string.Format("{0}://{1}:{2}/Services/Service.svc",
Application.Current.Host.Source.Scheme, Application.Current.Host.Source.Host, Application.Current.Host.Source.Port), UriKind.Absolute)));
}
}
}
Hope this helps someone!
Yes you are going to want to change your endpoint address. I recommend doing it in the silverlight code when creating the connection to the WCF service. The service itself lives on the web server, whereas the silverlight application lives on the clients computer. If the web server stops, the web service stops but the silverlight app can keep running.
edit:
To do this in code, as long as the path is always in the same domain as the app you can use do like so:
BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding(BasicHttpSecurityMode.None) //Use whatever security you need here
{
MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue,
MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue
};
Client client = new Client(binding, new EndpointAddress(new Uri(Application.Current.Host.Source, "../MyService.svc")));
Thanks so much for your help. I tried your approach to create the client code but that didn't work. And that's because the problem seems to be somewhere else.
So I installed fiddler to see the traffic.
Fiddler showed that the service was being accessed but the http response code was 302 showing that there was some redirection involved.
The address of my application is like this http:///Silverlightapp/(S(oirppxrwzhlf2a2vbia1ui45))/Default.aspx#/Home and it is hosted on IIS 6.
So I had to employ a workaround by installing the service on machine with IIS7 (and there was no session id involved like in the above url).I still kept the silverlight application hosted on IIS 6.
Anyway, in summary, to anyone who reads the thread, I did the following to troubleshoot and solve issue(temporarily)
Changed the end point address in the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file. When you add the service using discover option in VS, the endpoint address is of the localhost and this must be changed.
Registered the service model using ServiceModelReg -i command. (this solved my problem that my applicaiton was only working from development server and not IIS)
-Put the CrossDomain and ClientAccessPolicy files in c:]inetpub\wwwroot folders.
-Used fiddler to look at http response codes. I had to do no configuration in fiddler.
Changed the binarymessageEncoding to textMessageEncoding iin the web.config file of the silverlight web project that also hosted the ecf service. I did this becasue adding a silverlight enabled wcf service creates a custom binding configuration in the web.config file by default uses binary encoding. I needed text encoding to see errors in fidder. But this didn't help much becasue I only saw the name of the operation in the Inspector>xml tab in fiddler. This was the same even after my issues was resolved by workaround.
Thanks for the help
Don't do it in code. Otherwise you won't be able to change it later without recompiling the application (when the address will need to change, perhaps years down the road when you've lost the source code :)
Change the address in ServiceReferences.ClientConfig to where the service is actually hosted... e.g. http://example.com/myVdir/MyWebservice.svc
If later on you need to change the address without recompiling:
- Open the .xap file (it's just a zip file with a different extension)
- Find the .ClientConfig file and change the address
- Put it back together as a .zip file and rename to .xap
Also, I can't remember anymore whether the .ClientConfig supports relative addresses (e.g. just "MyWebService.svc"), but if it does it may be a good solution as well.

Resources