Need an idea on best practise in finding a solution.
We are looking at developing Silverlight controls for CRM forms that will need to reference a common configuration file for data. It is a file that will need to be maintained periodically every once in a while. We don't want to be hardcoding values into the Silverlight control.
My question is... Where/What/How do we provide a config file for a Silverlight control?
I tried uploading a JS web resource that simply was a JSON array full of settings that I tried to access from the Silverlight control. All I got were permission errors when I used both the admin account and my domain account to do a Http get of the file and parse it. Can someone confirm that this could work if I manage to work through these annoying permission errors?
My next thought was having a CRM entity full of settings that the Silverlight control could make ODATA calls to in order to get its config data. I'm not 100% sold on the idea though.
Perhaps there is another way people have been using - if so - I'd love to see what you are doing. This could really prevent us from coming to a Silverlight enriched solution that we are after.
Thanks in advance
We use the configuration entity method quite often and I think it works well.
You should be able to use your initial method as well... I know in a few places we've done some XML configuration in a web resource that we've retrieved in Silverlight, parsed, and done something with.
We go about this in two ways.
This xml web resource can be retrieved in Silverlight using WebClient.DownloadStringAsync() as shown below.
private void GetXmlConfiguration(string resourceName)
{
var webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.DownloadStringCompleted += OnGetConfigurationXmlCompleted;
webClient.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("../Data/" + resourceName, UriKind.Relative));
}
private void OnGetConfigurationXmlCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Error == null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(e.Result))
{
//use xml string here
}
}
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