{"id":731,"date":"2008-07-21T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/731-wcf-sessions-with-silverlight-and-flex.html"},"modified":"2008-07-21T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T11:44:10","slug":"wcf-sessions-with-silverlight-and-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/731-wcf-sessions-with-silverlight-and-flex.html","title":{"rendered":"WCF Sessions with Silverlight and Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to adapt my Silverlight CRUD sample<\/a> (which I also ported to Adobe Flex<\/a>) to fix a glaring weakness, which is that any user can amend any entry.<\/p>\n

I decided to add some logic that allows editing or deleting of only those rows created during the current session. The idea is that a user can amend the entry just made, but not touch any of the others.<\/p>\n

WCF has its own session management<\/a> but this is not supported by the BasicHttpBinding which is required<\/strong> by Silverlight.<\/p>\n

Fortunately you can use ASP.NET sessions instead. This means setting your WCF web service for ASP.NET compatibility:<\/p>\n

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[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Required)]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then you can write code using the HttpContext.Current.Session object.<\/p>\n

This depends on cookies being enabled on the client. In my simple case it worked fine, in both Silverlight and Flex. In a real app you would probably want to use HTTPS.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d post the sample but unfortunately my Windows web space doesn\u2019t support WCF.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: wcf<\/a>, sessions<\/a>, asp.net<\/a>, flex<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to adapt my Silverlight CRUD sample (which I also ported to Adobe Flex) to fix a glaring weakness, which is that any user can amend any entry. I decided to add some logic that allows editing or deleting of only those rows created during the current session. The idea is that a user … Continue reading WCF Sessions with Silverlight and Flex<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,44,55,77,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-adobe","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}