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3 replies. Latest Post by microsoft_kc on July 15, 2009.
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markheath
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07-15-2009 2:42 AM |
I want to demo a Silverlight app I have written in a situation with no web access. No problem, I thought, just have a html file and my xap file and double-click the html page. However, I get an error whenever I try to use the WebClient to download an XML file that resides in the same folder as the html file:
client.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("playlist.xml", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute));
The error is "The URI prefix is not recognized". I have checked and double-checked the filename. I've put the playlist.xml at the same level as the html, inside the xap, and tried using a ClientBin folder too.
Any suggestions on what is going wrong here? I'm using Silverlight 3 Visual Studio tooling, so my project upgraded itself last time I opened it.
thanks
Mark
tanmoy.r
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07-15-2009 2:53 AM |
Hi,
When you open your html page it opens like C://somedir/yourhtmlfile.html
In that case WebClient will not work.
You need to run the application with from server (like http:// protocol)
For testing create a simple aspx page and have the same html as your html page and run it.
07-15-2009 3:02 AM |
OK, thanks, I was wondering if that might be the problem. The URL was file:///C:/ etc. For the demo I am going to use the test webserver that comes with VisualStudio to serve up my page. Just one more thing to go wrong in the demo though!
microsof...
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07-15-2009 3:07 AM |
Try the following:
client.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(App.Current.Host.Source, "../playlist.xml"));
Place your playlist.xml file outside the ClientBin directory.
The URI prefix is not recognized