Question

I am very new to Silverlight development. I understand that this is client side technology therefore the paradyme is differant from that of conventional ASP.NET development. Having said that, I don’t understand where my server side code is deployed.

I have a silver light \ MVC application. I am trying to read an XML document from within my ‘Models’ folder. The following peice of code is executed from within a class that is in the same location as the XML document, ‘Models’. The load() results in a SystemIOFileNotFound exception. I noticed that when building the application the XML document is not laid down in the same location as the web project’s assembly. I assume this is specific to the fact that this is a Silverlight project. Can someone tell me what I’m missing?

  _xdoc = new XDocument();
   _xdoc = XDocument.Load(new Uri("videos.xml",UriKind.Relative).ToString());

Edit..

The behavior I am after is the start page (silverlight) populates controls via a server side controller. ie localhost/video

Answer 1

The problem was that I was attempting to access this static resource as you would in typical ASP.net. However I found it necessary to map the path to the file using the current HTTPContext:

HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/videos.xml");

So the above worked for me. Since this code is in the web project and not in the silverlight project I am still unclear as to why I cannot just access this resource using a relative path. This code will be executed in the context of the web server.
i.e.

XDocument.load(../App_Data/videos.xml);