Question

I’m working on building a Silverlight application whereas we want to be able to have a client hit a url like:

http://{client}.domain.com/

and login, where the {client} part is their business name. so for example, google’s would be:

http://google.domain.com/

What I was wondering was if anyone has been able, in silverlight, to be able to use this subdomain model to make decisions on the call to the web server so that you can switch to a specific database to run a query? Unfortunately, it’s something that is quite necessary for the project, as we are trying to make it easy for their employees to get their company specific information for our software.

Answer 1

Wouldn’t it work to put the service on a specific subdomain itself, such as wcf.example.com, and then setup a cross domain policy file on the service to allow it to access it?

As long as this would work you could just load the silverlight in the proper subdomain and then pass that subdomain to your service and let it do its thing.

Some examples of this below:

• Silverlight Cross Domain Services
• Silverlight Cross Domain Policy Helpers