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Calling Web Services from Silverlight using IIS 7.0 and ARR
During this PDC I attended Ian's presentation about WPF and Silverlight where he demonstrated the high degree of compatibility that can be achieved between a WPF desktop application and a Silverlight application. One of the differences that he demonstrated was when your application consumed Web Services since Silverlight applications execute in a sandboxed environment they are not allowed to call random Web Services or issue HTTP requests to servers that are not the originating server, or a server that exposes a cross-domain manifest stating that it is allowed to be called by clients from that domain.
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Creating a Setup Project for IIS Extensions using Visual Studio 2008
IIS 7 provides a rich extensibility model, whether extending the server or the user interface, one critical thing is provide a simple setup application that can install all the required files, add any registration information required, and modify the server settings as required by the extension.
Visual Studio 2008 provides a set of project types called Setup and Deployment projects specifically for this kind of applications. The output generated for these projects is an MSI that can perform several actions for you, including copying files, adding files to the GAC, adding registry keys, and many more.
In this document we will create a setup project to install a hypothetical runtime Server Module that also includes a User Interface extension for IIS Manager.
Our setup will basically perform the following actions:
• Copy the required files, including three DLL’s and an html page.
• Add a couple of registry keys.
• Add the managed assemblies to the GAC
• Modify applicationHost.config to register a new module
• Modify administration.config to register a new UI extensibility for InetMgr
• Create a new sample application that exposes the html pages
• Finally, we will remove the changes from both configuration files during uninstall