Silverlight deploy website with db on host not working

Question

Hello,

i have built (locally) a silverlight website. It uses a mysql database (had to install mysql connector) and a wcf service to contact the db on the server.

Locally, everything works fine. However when i uploaded it on my host, the silverlight application loads OK, but t cannot get the data from the host database.

It's the first time i'm doing this, so there's probably something i do not know. The steps i took in order to make this to work on my host are:

• I created a database and uploaded all data from my local db.
• I uploaded all my site content (my ClientBin folder, my service.svc file, web.config and my App_Code folder)

• I changed the database name and access parameters on my web.config to point to my host's parameters What have i done wrong? Also, are all these files i have uploaded necessary or not?

  Thank you

Answer 1

Do you have the clientaccesspolicy.xml served up by the machine hosting the WCF service? Silverlight requires this file to be present before consuming web services. Normally you'd create a clientaccesspolicy.xml and place it in the root directory of the web server, but for WCF, you may have to generate the policy file from the WCF service itself:

http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/16839/57457.aspx