One of the first things I would do after installing CSWorks is to open a browser on another machine in the network and type in "http://MyTestBox/CSWorksDemo/PipesAndTanksDemo.html", where MyTestBox is the name of the machine where I installed CSWorks.

This doesn't work. And it's not supposed to work because of the cross-domain web service call restrictions imposed by your browser. If you have a look at ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file in the Pipes and Tanks Demo xap package (CSWorks.Client.PipesAndTanksDemo.xap in your CSWorksDemo/ClientBin folder; don't worry it's just a ZIP file with XAP extension), you will find endpoint description for LiveData web service calls that looks as follows:



In our case, when Silverlight is trying to make a web service call to http://localhost/CSWorksDemo/LiveDataWebService/Service.asmx, the browser checks the URL of the application which happens to start with "http://MyTestBox". Since it doesn't start with "http://localhost", the browser considers this a potential security threat and blocks the call.

To make things work, just replace "localhost" in the config file with the name (or IP address) of your CSWorks server:



and save updated config to the xap file. Now refresh the page in the browser on the remote machine - Pipes and Tanks Demo should work fine.

Update (June 25, 2010):

with Silverlight 4, you can use relative web service addresses, see this post for details.

Users who are new to .NET web development keep asking asking questions about CSWorks installation errors related to IIS and ASP.NET, here are some of them:

Cannot connect to Internet Information Server. (-2147221164)

IIS (Internet Information Services) version 5 or higher must be installed

IIS (Internet Information Services) version 7 or higher and IIS 6 Management Compatibility (appcmd.exe) must be installed

All these messages signal about the same thing: IIS/ASP.NET is not working properly on this machine. Please follow the steps below to install IIS/ASP.NET on your machine

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Vista

I will describe the process for Windows Server 2008. Windows 7 interface is very similar, Vista interface is slightly different, but names and descriptions are pretty much the same.

In "Programs and Features", click on "Turn Windows features on or off". See screenshot.

Add Web Server Role if needed, and click on it to configure. See screenshot.

Select all Web Server role service required for ASP.NET application hosting as on the screenshot below. Please pay special attention to the "Application Development" and "Management Tools" sections. See W2K8 screenshot , or Windows 7 screenshot.

You may need to enable ASP.NET ISAPI extension manually. Find "ISAPI and CGI Restrictions" under IIS properties (see screenshot), and enable ASP.NET extensions (see screenshot).

Windows XP

Go to Settings -> Control Panel ->Add or Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components. Select "Internet Information Services", and select required components - see screenshot.

Navigate to your Microsoft .NET windows directory which is usually C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 and run aspnet_regiis -i and aspnet_regiis -c.

Go to My Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Internet Information Services, Select "Default Web Site", right-click on it and modify ASP.NET tab of site properties so it uses ASP.NET 2.0. See screenshot.

Update: starting from CSWorks 1.4.3820, choose ASP.NET 4.0 in this drop-down.

Windows Server 2003

Go to Settings -> Control Panel ->Add or Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components. Select "Internet Information Services", and select required components - see screenshot.

Navigate to your Microsoft .NET windows directory which is usually C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 and run aspnet_regiis -i and aspnet_regiis -c.

Go to My Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Internet Information Services, Select "Default Web Site", right-click on it and modify ASP.NET tab of site properties so it uses ASP.NET 2.0. See screenshot.

Update: starting from CSWorks 1.4.3820, choose ASP.NET 4.0 in this drop-down.

Select "Web Service Extension" node of local IIS server and enable ASP.NET v2.0 extension.See screenshot.

What's new:

• Trend Control and Trend Demo
• Breaking change in history database format: LastValue observations
• Multiple Historical Data improvements
• Historical Data documentation