Cannot view Silverlight app on another machine

No, i have not published it as of yet. Im just running it up in debug mode in Visual Studio 2008

Do you have any WCF service in your application ? If yes try requesting that service from other machine while running in debug mode ? Also make sure the URL you have passing to access from other machine. [Replacing localhost with ip of your dev. machine , I could not see URL in your attached screenshot]

Can you try publishing on your dev. machine and making your published web app to be shared on network and then try from other machines ? Directly requesting from VS debug mode .... will have to check.

Aha worked!! accessed it on anotehr machine once i published it. However got this error when trying to search...(the search just searchs on lastname in my SQL db local instance)

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:20:40 UTC


Message: Unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application [Async_ExceptionOccurred]
Arguments:
Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and arguments provide sufficient information to diagnose the problem. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=106663&Version=3.0.40818.0&File=System.dll&Key=Async_ExceptionOccurred   at System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventArgs.RaiseExceptionIfNecessary()
   at SqlData.ServiceReference1.GetContactByLastNameCompletedEventArgs.get_Result()
   at SqlData.Page.webService_GetContactByLastNameCompleted(Object sender, GetContactByLastNameCompletedEventArgs e)
   at SqlData.ServiceReference1.Service1Client.OnGetContactByLastNameCompleted(Object state)
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://170.16.112.141/Test%20Rig/SqlDataTestPage.aspx

looks like some error on your silverlight application side. Again can you reach your WCF service from remote machine after publishing

What happens is while publishing you need to take care of the serviceReference.Clientconfig file end point ocnfiguration.

Im might so stupid here but do you reach WCF service from remote machine?

Mistype...How do you access a WCF service remotely?

humm, http://serverip/appname/servicename.svc

Hi
I can hit the service from another machine fine

are you trying to access the application with something like "localhost:1234/YourProject/Page.aspx" on the other machine to the one it is running on....?

No, im using the IP address...

http://172.112.13.121/TestRig/SqlDataTestPage.html

The debug server runs on a port on the development machine. I don't think you can access it from another machine like that while it's running on the debug server.

Even though i have published it in 'release' mode and shared it out?

No , once you have published  it won't run on debug mode.
So continuing to my previous post, if you are able to reach to the service it means your application is running fine.At what point in your application you are getting this error?

ok now built in release mode. It falls over as soon as they do a search (which is the service bit see code) so basically on any machine it loads the app up but when someone does a search the error occurs:

Unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application An exception occurred during the operation, making the result invalid.  Check InnerException for exception details.   at System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventArgs.RaiseExceptionIfNecessary()\n   at SqlData.ServiceReference1.GetContactByLastNameCompletedEventArgs.get_Result()\n   at SqlData.Page.webService_GetContactByLastNameCompleted(Object sender, GetContactByLastNameCompletedEventArgs e)\n   at SqlData.ServiceReference1.Service1Client.OnGetContactByLastNameCompleted(Object state)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.Text;
 
namespace SqlData.Web
{
   // NOTE: If you change the class name "Service1" here, you must also update the reference to "Service1" in Web.config.
   public class Service1 : IService1
   {
 
      #region IService1 Members
 
      public List<Contact> GetContactByLastName( string FirstName )
      {
         DataClasses1DataContext db = new DataClasses1DataContext();
         var matchingContact = from contact in db.Contacts
                                 where contact.FirstName.StartsWith( FirstName )
                                 select contact;
         return matchingContact.ToList();
      }
 
      #endregion

                                              

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the service address probably still points to localhost.

rename the .xap file with the .zip extension.
Extract it and open the servicerefences.cientconfig file. Look for an entry like this:

<client>
            <endpoint address="http://localhost:54873/MyProject/MyService"....

- this is the address of the service when you run the project on the development server. Change it to the address of your deployed service.
Save it and compress the files back to a zip file, then rename it .xap

Configured .XAP file but now get:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.1)
Timestamp: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:25:09 UTC


Message: Unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application
Code: 2103    
Category: InitializeError      
Message: Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest    

Line: 53
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: http://172.etc.etc/TestRig/SqlDataTestPage.html

appmanifest.xaml should also be in the xap. You might be able to see what's wrong if you look at that in the unzipped version

this is whats in the appmanifest:

<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007/deployment" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" EntryPointAssembly="SqlData" EntryPointType="SqlData.App" RuntimeVersion="3.0.40624.0">
  <Deployment.Parts>
    <AssemblyPart x:Name="SqlData" Source="SqlData.dll" />
    <AssemblyPart x:Name="System.Windows.Controls.Data" Source="System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll" />
    <AssemblyPart x:Name="System.Windows.Controls.Data.Input" Source="System.Windows.Controls.Data.Input.dll" />
    <AssemblyPart x:Name="System.Windows.Data" Source="System.Windows.Data.dll" />
    <AssemblyPart x:Name="System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations" Source="System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll" />
  </Deployment.Parts>
</Deployment>

whats more is everytime is change localhost to ip address in service.refernces.clientconfig or infact unzip and then archive it rename to xap without making amendments i get this:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.1)
Timestamp: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:09:31 UTC


Message: Unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application
Code: 2103    
Category: InitializeError      
Message: Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest    

Line: 53
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: http://lP/TestRig/SqlDataTestPage.html

ok finally chinu, where abouts in the project is the xap file to amend?

Closing call as original problem was resolved by chinu1310. Will log another with regard to accessing silverlight on another machine