Situation: your Silverlight 3 application is calling a web service and while it works fine in the browser, it miserably fails in out of the browser mode (OOB). Don’t panic. It seems that you cannot call a webservice (in App.xaml.cs) before having assigned the application’s root visual. As mentioned, this is not a problem when [...]
I took some very simple measurements from my recent experiments with Silverlight and WCF web services. These are so simple and unscientifical that I suggest you take them only as a general indication. Please test your scenario to get an accurate picture! That said, some differences are so large that it already gives you a [...]
In a previous post I wrote a method to enable GZIP compression on a self-hosted WCF service that communicates with Silverlight. Unfortunately that method does not work. I still haven’t understood if it stopped working at some point for some reason, or if I was fooled into thinking that it worked but it didn’t. Whatever, [...]
Update (12/1/2009): this seems not to work anymore. I’m still investigating on the cause as it was definitely working (I even performed some comparison benchmarks for our product) –or maybe I had some kind of hallucinations, it happens too. If you have any idea please share in the comments below! Thanks! Please read this post for a [...]