CRM 2011 - Debugging Silverlight Webresources without deploying

It finaly works!

Good week for CRM2011 developers!

1. Release of new SDK

2. New informations about WCF-Soap Endpoint

3. Finding a solution for debugging silverlight webresources without deploying the webresources (My personal breakthrough! :))


Ok, first of all i would like to thank "erik-lp" from the MSDN forum for his tipps.

Following things are required for debugging your silverlight webresource.

• Developing Machine (Same or other domain doesn't mater)
• CRM-Server (I have tested with RC)
• clientaccesspolicy.xml

The clientaccesspolicy.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<access-policy>
<cross-domain-access>
<policy>
<allow-from http-request-headers="*">
<domain uri="*"/>
</allow-from>
<grant-to>
<resource path="/" include-subpaths="true"/>
</grant-to>
</policy>
</cross-domain-access>
</access-policy>

1. Navigate to the Web-Folder of your CRM-System. (\..\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\CRMWeb\)
2. Copy the created clientaccesspolicy.xml into this folder
3. Open your silverlight project in Visual Studio (For this example, we assume you are using the SOAP example from SDK version 5.0.1)
4. Navigate to the SilverlightUtility.cs class
5. Replace following code in the GetSoapService() Method

Before:

Uri serviceUrl = CombineUrl(GetServerBaseUrl(), "/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc/web");

After:

Uri serviceUrl = new Uri("http:///<ORGNAME>/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc/web");

Now you can push F5 and start debuging.

This solutions only works in OnPremise Systems. You can not deploy clientaccesspolicy.xml in online systems.
Eric also talks about a ClientGlobalContext.aspx.js file. This is not required, if you replace the code in the SilverlightUtil.cs.

Happy coding!

cheers!