XBAP Application and Remoting - Should I use an SSL Certificate

Question

I am considering deploying an existing WPF application as an XBAP application. It currently uses TCP remoting which i would likely change to HTTP remoting. What is the best way to secure the communication - will using an SSL certificate on the remoting server be sufficient or are further steps necessary in such a scenario?

Answer 1

There are 2 questions in your question actually:

1. Can I switch my Remoting app to XBAP?
2. How can I secure my Remoting sessions with SSL?

With regards to the first question, note that you can only use Remoting under the full trust mode, while XBAP applications work under partial trust by default. To enable full trust XBAP you'll have to go through a painful way of issuing a certificate and installing it to the clients' machines (unless they are all in the same domain and you can create a trusted site in that domain).

With regards to the second question, take a look at this article.

Hope it helps.