Remoting suppport ?? just like Flash

08-23-2007 1:42 AM |

 Dear All,

Will silverlight 1.1 support remoting like Flask does?

Re: Remoting suppport ?? just like Flash

09-05-2007 10:18 AM |

Jawc,

Do you mean socket support, like XMLSocket?
If so, I'm also waiting for that kind of functionality in Silverlight.

Meanwhile, I'm using Flash as a socket provider, and communicate from Silverlight to Javascript to Flash, and visa versa. It works great, although it would be nice to have sockets from within Silverlight.

Re: Remoting suppport ?? just like Flash

09-07-2007 6:06 PM |

 Doesnt look like 1.1 will support any tcp binary remoting.  Keep in mind that silverlight is a subset of the WPF and if you look at the feature list poster image it says that it will support WCF web services.  That in itself would be really neat if it really supported even wsHttpBinding capabilities of the WCF.  It currently doesn't even really seem to support that with respect to svcutil.exe unless I am missing something.  I still don't see the rational behind restricting what kind of class library projects you can use either.  See my post/rant:

http://silverlight.net/forums/t/4495.aspx

 to make silverlight really really cool in my book it will need to support:

1) standard class library references

2) databinding

3) also, binary services would be really great as well.

 Right now although you can make some neat stuff with it, it really isn't that powerful and even though they say you can use c# to program with it, it doesn't allow the interoperability with other projects to be taken very seriously.  Maybe the 1.2+ version will have some better features, but I don't plan on using it with such limited capabilities.

Anybody have any thoughts? 

Re: Re: Remoting suppport ?? just like Flash

09-09-2007 9:14 AM |

As what I know so far....Socket is going to be supported in silverlight 1.1..
The reason I want remoting support because I want my c# object would be transfered to back end by binary wire.
For silverlight 1.1 alpha, there are some problem with serialization enum to back end....
Therefore, I hope there will be a easy solution to transfer native dotnet object....
thank you

Re: Re: Remoting suppport ?? just like Flash

09-12-2007 2:01 PM |

Well Silverlight is a subset of the WPF so it will most definitely not support remoting, but I am hoping that they will have some WCF support.  WCF lets you transfer your native .net objects via binary or soap using the svcutil.exe "/reference" option.  It actually has VS 2008 direct IDE support, but not for silverlgiht projects.  When 1.1 is officially released, I sure hope its in there.