I downloaded the silverlight 4 socket application from the book "Pro silverlight 4 with c#" which is basically just a silverlight socket client and server application. The server is a console application and the client is a silverlight web applcation.
I can run the server and client fine on ONE computer, it shows that its connected and so on, but when i tried connecting to the server on a different computer (Local Network), it wont connect. Any idea??? Eventually i want to put this on the internet and go live, not local. When i run using visual studio development server, it shows localhost and port 1091, and i thoguth silverlight only uses port 5200 somthing.
Silverlight applications are only allowed to connect back to the site it was loaded from by default, much like Java and Flash does. If you need to communicate with another server, that server needs to explicitly allow it by running a policy service listening to port 943, or by serving a policy file over HTTP port 80. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645032(VS.95).aspx for the full details on how to implement this.
Have you added policy file to you "C:\inetpub\wwwroot"?
I used example from "Pro silverlight 3 with c#" and its work from internet and local.
I added policy file to "C:\inetpub\wwwroot", where my silverlight website was published and everything works fine.
Note that website published in the same machine where server application runs.
Hope this will help you.
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I have an application that can be downloaded from our website and runs on user PC.
This application provides connection between our hardware and our web application. It uses SignalR for communication.
Basically, I run SignalR server under WinForms application and have javascript client that tries to access it through http://localhost:8084/signalR.
Everything works fine when I use HTTP version of the web application, but fails, when I use HTTPS for my web application:
Most of the browsers don't allow unsecured connections from a secure page.
So, my question is how can I have self-signed certificate included in my software which installs certificate on user pc during installation and how can I make it work in the way that browsers not complaining about unsecured connection?
If you run SignalR server on user PC each user must obtain the certificate for SignalR connection it launches. Self-signed certificate would be reasonable decision for an Intranet or development. It isn't safe enough for the internet. Another possible problem is retrieving name of the machine where SignalR is running. Certificate attaches to certain local machine(I could be wrong at this) and for connecting to client's application SignalR server you need to know the name of machine he uses. Migrating SignalR server from client to web app server will solve mentioned troubles.
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 instance and I wanted to deploy an ASP.NET Web API to it (I have used custom deployment method, saving the .rar file on disk). I have created the website inside IIS and everything is working great on http://localhost:8080.
When I try to access it by its external ip (http://12.34.567.899:8080) it won't respond.
Also, the default website on port 80 is fully working.
Things that I have tried
1. My port is open as I have run 'netstat -a' and port 8080 shows as 'LISTENING'
2. I have already checked bindings for IIS, they are ':8080'
Thank you in advance.
Okay, I'm a very green developer (co-op student) so I'll try my best to make sense. Currently I have a web application (call it "Updater") that is an aspx and runs through IIS. My boss has asked my to look into creating a program (exe or command line) that can run the app through created encapsulated web server that can act like IIS. This is so that I can run the exe during an installer procedure on a client's machine so that the updater can configure the client's program.
So Far I've looked into sources upon sources on how to create a self hosted web server to handle a web app and I've managed to do the following:
-Create a command line server hosted at a given port #######.
-Use a StreamReader to read an html file
-Use HttpResponseMessage to set the Content to this html page.
Obviously this is very rudimentary, but I couldn't understand how to switch the app over to the server I created rather than the IIS.
Any help ont he matter would be appreciated, like I said I'm still quite new.
You can use OWIN to self host from within a console application.
Look for 'Self-Host OWIN in a Console Application' in the following link:
http://www.asp.net/aspnet/overview/owin-and-katana/getting-started-with-owin-and-katana
You need to start you self host server with the address your app is trying to contact. If your IIS is running with the default settings it should be http://localhost:80. Before you start the self host server you need to shut down your IIS website that is running on port 80. Two applications can not listen on the same port at the same time.
What you ask is a redistributable web server for ASP.NET. So, you might find interesting the UltiDev Web Server, formerly known as Cassini web server.
From their website:
UltiDev Web Server Pro (UWS) is an advanced, redistributable web server for Windows that can be use as a regular web server to host web sites and ASP.NET applications, or packaged with your ASP.NET web application and installed on your customers' systems along with your web app or site.
I have a client-server application written in c#. I am hoping someone can give some direction on where to look in order to set it up where a user could connect to the server from their workstation, most likely through http but that's not a requirement, and download the client. The mechanism would need the following features:
Check for updates on client startup and automatically apply them.
Allow multiple clients (connected to different servers) to download on the same machine
Client can be downloaded by a non-local admin
Possibly install any prerequisites needed on the workstation
I currently use ClickOnce but it isn't quite working out. Currently the server sits in IIS and uses WCF services.
I am hosting web service in a one machine using Visual studio 2008. I tried accessing the web service from a web site i created in the same solution and it was successfully called. Now i want to access the web service from a remote client.
I initially developed the web service to used in an android application. As you can see if I wan to access the web service I will have to host is with a static IP. So at least to test the application i want access the web service from the android mobile by connecting both server and android mobile to one wifi network. For the initial test I connected two laptops(one is server) to the wifi router. And i pingd the server from the client machine and it got successfully pingd. But when i try to access the web service with given port from the browser it wont allow me to connect. I tried http://localhost:26796/ by replacing the localhost with ip of the server and also i tried making a small web site(asp) and try to access it from the client via IP. Both did not work. I have searched here and on web could not find a proper answer. for,
how to host a webservice so other clients in the same network can access..?
can it be fulfilled with VSD server..?
is it compulsory to use iis..?
How should i achieve this..?
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Publish the web service to your local machine's IIS as an Application. Then you can access the site from anywhere in your network. Running it directly from VS means it's hosted inside VS's ASP.NET Development Server (which, by default is only accessible locally). You can try opening up the port specified in the ASP.NET development server that starts up on your machine's local firewall, then you can access the debug instance being hosted