silverlight: Change the uri to my dataservice after deployment

Question

Hi,

i've made a service reference from my silverlight app to my local dev server. but now i want to deploy this on the testserver, but how can i change the uri of the dataservice now? all i deploy is a XAP file, and in the asp.net world i was used to change the uri in the web.config, but obviously that isn't present in a silverlight app?

Answer 1

Your Silverlight application should have merged the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig into your web.config file. You will find it under:

<system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
        <!-- Your binding details here -->
    </bindings>
    <client>
        <endpoint address="http://localhost/servicename/servicename.svc"
           binding="basicHttpBinding" 
           bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_Iservicename"
           contract="servicenameReference.Iservicename"
           name="BasicHttpBinding_Iservicename" />
    </client>
</system.serverModel>

Amend the address to point to the production server.

Answer 2

See this answer for some details on how to set your WCF proxy end point programmatically. Doing it this way means you can avoid putting any address information in your config file.