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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:55:53+00:00

Say I have the following interface that I want to share between my server

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Say I have the following interface that I want to share between my server (a regular web service) and my client (a silverlight 2.0 application):

public interface ICustomerService {     Customer GetCustomer(string name); }

My web service implements this interface, and references a class library where Customer type is defined.

Usually, if you want to consume this service from a WCF client, say a winforms app, you could share your model assembly and your service contract interfaces. Then, by using a ChannelFactory, you can dynamically create a proxy which implements your service interface. Something like:

ICustomerService myService = new ChannelFactory<ICustomerService>(myBinding, myEndpoint); Customer customer = myService.GetCustomer('romain');

I basically want to do the same thing, but from a Silverlight 2.0 application. The silverlight ChannelFactory doesn’t seems to act like the other one…

Do you know if it’s possible ?

Note : Since a Silverlight application can only refers Silverlight projects, I have:

Two versions of MyModel.dll which contains Customer type:

  • One compiled targetting .NET framework 3.5, referenced by my web service project
  • Another compiled targetting the silverlight 2.0 framework, referenced by my silverlight app

Two versions of MyServicesContracts.dll which contains ICustomerService interface:

  • One compiled targetting .NET framework 3.5, referenced by my web service project
  • Another compiled targetting the silverlight 2.0 framework, referenced by my silverlight app
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  1. I think you will find this thread interesting. You can share code files between separate projects or compile a single project against multiple targets.

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