I have written a Silverlight application that is basically an account registration form. I have been able to successfully deploy this to one of our production servers running windows server 2008/IIS7. While this took some time to do, I was able to work through and solve the issues that came up fairly easily. Now I am trying to deploy the application on our main production server. This server is running windows 2003/IIS6 and this is where I have hit some problems.
I have solved most of the issues and now the silverlight application will load and I can see the form for a few seconds before it disappears. I believe during this time it is trying to load data from the database using the RIA services.
In IE I get the following error:
Webpage error details
Message: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application
Code: 4004
Category: ManagedRuntimeError
Message: System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException:
System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException:
System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException:
Cannot find a Resource with the Name/Key ApplicationResources [Line: 6 Position: 9]
I believe it must be a configuration issue in IIS6 because the app works fine on IIS7 but I am drawing a blank as to what to try. I have spent hours trying to find a solution to this particular problem and while others have mentioned getting this problem the answers always tend to be non-specific in nature.
This is what I have done so far:
Added New Application Pool for .NET 4.
Set the website to use .NET 4 on the ASP.NET tab (nearly had heart failure when this did an iisreset).
Added the MIME types for Silverlight .xaml, .xap, etc.
Unchecked Integrated Windows Authentication (was giving an error when checked).
Give Execute permissions to Scripts and Executables.
Recycled the application pool.
The one thing I have seen suggested but have not tried is an iisreset, and while I am not entirely convinced that doing this would solve the problem, we have scheduled this to be done tonight (if I cannot find a solution before then).
So basically I am wondering if anyone out there has seen this problem and knows how to solve it?
UPDATE 1: We tried an iisreset last night and as I expected this did not solve the problem.
Okay I have solved the problem. As suggested I did a WCF trace on the application. This highlighted the REAL problem straight away, which was 'The SELECT permission was denied on the object...'. Once I fixed this the application works as I expected. It turns out that a colleague of mine had already made this permission change on our other server (running IIS7) so that was why it worked there (this is bad - I know).
Also it didn't help that the javascript error I was receiving on the client side (shown in the question) had nothing to do with the underlying issue and led me well and truly up the garden path.
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I've inherited a Silverlight/WCF application. (Having worked on .net MVC, and SPA for quite a while)
I tried switching the IIS website folder to see if a tweak to the code and a fresh build would work, it didn't work and I switched back and although the website is functional it has a number of faults.
For some reason the Windows authentication appears to have stopped working, this authorises a number of the admin functions. I think this is broken and so not enabling the functionality in the Silverlight app.
The server I've inherited has the applications as folders in the default website, which is new to me, and quite constraining. I've gone through IISAdmin videos, and learnt a lot, but not enough to fix the issue.
I am unable to get the software to run in VS2013, quite a bump after working on Single Page Applications.
I'm stumped as to how the same code put back no longer works; I've learnt my lesson, but I still need to fix the system. I am not sure whether IISReset would make a difference since the AppPool is recycled every 29 hours. I've found out what the harm in trying is, and so I am proceeding with caution.
So my main goal would be to get the Windows Authentication working again.
My SL application is commercial and working just fine on hundreds of machines.
SL is using a WCF service and it works as expected, but today I observed behavior on client machine, where literally no call is made to server.
After you click button that sends a call, some error occures, and no record about WCF call is created in Fiddler.
Error is:
[HttpWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer]
Arguments: NotFound
Debugging resource strings are unavailable...
I read about this error that people recommend to use Fiddler, but as I say there is no call displayed in Fiddler
So problem is worse than I thought initially.
It comes and goes. Currently we have found a working solution that fixes the problem after it appears although it doesn't make any sense to me.
For example if I get this error in chrome & mozilla & OOB version,
launching a program in IE works, and after that chrome,mozilla & OOB
start to work too.
Thing is that same people who had this problem solved with this workaround experience it again in some days, like a week, with no apparent reason, and then combination of launches from various locations helps (usually IE helps the most).
Any help appreciated, I start a bounty as its pretty sick bug and I need to fix it somehow.
Update
Weird IE fix scenario:
At some point OOB version gets into state where it doesn't send any WCF request to server.
(fiddler doesn't see it, server doesn't gets it).
After launching web version in IE, and hitting the same button, that sends WCF request we get desired result in IE web version.
Without changing anything else, just relaunching OOB version which was in this buggest state before, makes OOB version work correctly. Its not reinstalled, not changed - nothing.
This is what I call "IE cure" of this problem.
So the question is what can IE launch potentiall change for OOB version?
According to this thread the message Debugging resources are unavailable appears when de client is not using the the Silverlight Developer Runtime.
This means that the actual exception is hidden from you (and us) so the next step is to reproduce the error on a system that has the Silverlight Developer Runtime.
I found this article. It might be worth it to check the certificate you are using (are you using a certificate) It is one of those things that is different with OOB apps and browsers.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, I'm fairly new to writing services. I've written a service that runs a timer and the timer code runs some checks to ensure our systems are up and running. It's written in VB.Net, framework 1.1. I then install the service using "sc create". The service works beautifully on the XP Pro machine that I'm developing on. However, when I install the service on a Windows 2003 server 64 bit, the service fails with error 1053 immediately. I put some debugging in to write to a text file as the first line of code in the OnStart function but even that doesn't run, so there must be a problem in the program starting up. Finally in desperation I created a brand new Windows Service in a new VB project in Visual Studio 2003 and compiled an empty service that merely declares and sets the value of a string variable in the OnStart function as follows:
Dim strTmp As String
strTmp = "hello"
Even that failed on the W2K3 server, but works fine on the XP dev machine.
The server has .Net Framework 1.1 installed and working, we use it in our CMS (written in ASP.Net 1.1).
The service runs as the local system account. I tried enabling interaction with the desktop but that didn't help. I ran Process Monitor and there are no access denied events. I emptied the Application Event Log, still doesn't work. No other events to help me out in the logs. Definitely using the Release build of the application. Permissions on the exe file are full control for System and for Admins.
Any ideas anyone? It must be something simple, but I'm damned if I can figure it out!
Thanks in advance.
#DavidHi, many thanks for the suggestions. I don´t think the first point is my problem, partly because the MS article is about stopping or pausing the service, mine fails on starting; but also because the service does not timeout, there is no 30 second wait, it fails immediately. Secondly, when you say add an exception handler to the service startup, do you mean the OnStart sub? I tried adding a debug file write in there, but I'll try adding an event log instead. Regarding the systems checks, it can't be that because the brand new empty test service I created shows the same behaviour and that does not do anything at all. You last point could be the key. My dev environment IS 32bit. I'll do some research on the corflags thing, or perhaps I can build a 64bit dev environment. Many thanks again, you've given me some new things to think about at least!
Ok, have found a workaround. I was putting my exe file in System32. When I put it in a different folder, created by myself, the service ran, albeit briefly. I then had to move the ini file and the log files that it reads/writes to that folder too, rather than System32, and all seems to work nicely. God knows why it doesn't like running from System32 but at least it works now! Thanks for the help guys.
This looks very similar to this question which might help you out:
Starting a windows service fails with error 1053
A couple of other things to look out for:
Make sure you don't have either of the following statements in your deployed service:
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break
You may need to run the service with an account other than Local System (depending upon the permissions required by your service).
The 1053 error is a timeout related to the service control manager waiting for the service to respond to your start request. There is a knowledgebase article that refers to managed service stop request issues specifically relating to Framework 1.1-based services, so it is not precisely describing your problem, but it may have relevance in your situation. The link is provided for your reference.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839174
The other suggestion I would make to further diagnose the issue is to determine whether the Start is failing due to a "hidden" exception occurring in your service's startup code; the start call would not see the exception and could make you think it was merely timing out.
I would suggest you add an exception handler to your service startup that does nothing more than log a message to the event log with the particulars of the exception if one is caught. That would at least give you an idea that something is going wrong specifically within the service, and give you more information than you have right now.
One last thought: Does the service check the systems you describe over a network connection? If so, LocalSystem won't have sufficient privileges to perform network access.
Good luck!
EDIT One other possibility:
Is your development environment/execuable 32-bit? You mention your server is 64-bit, so you may need to use the "corflags" tool that forces 32bit operation on your executable
corflags /32bit+ YourServiceExectubable.exe
The source for this information was the following SO post:
32-bit Windows services in 64-bit environment
**Unfortunately, it appears corflags is applicable only for 2.0 assemblies, and was designed for specifically this type of problem. **
Very frustrated with all of this, hoping someone can assist.
I had a Silverlight application and WCF working together without issue for a year. In order to get them working, I had some pain initially but finally worked through it with help. All of the pain came from configuration/security, 401's, cross-domain hell, etc.
The way I have everything setup is that I have a WCF service that resides in it's own application/directory and runs in its own application pool.
On the same web server (IIS7), I have another application/directory with the Silverlight application that points to the aforementioned service.
The server name (for this exercise) is WEBSERVER1. We've created a CNAME for it that is WEB1. In the past, if the user went to http://WEB1/MyApp/ or http://WEBSERVER1/MyApp/ it would work. Suddenly yesterday it started behaving badly. Normal users started getting the Windows challenge/response prompt (and even if they entered the info they would get a 401 error).
My WCF service runs in a site that enables anonymous access (and this has always worked).
My Silverlight application runs in a site that has windows integrated (and this has always worked), since I capture the Windows username when they connect.
For the record, I did create a NEW application pool yesterday with an ASP.NET application that runs in it. This seems to work fine, but there is a chance creating this new application pool and application/directory has caused something to change.
I have a clientaccesspolicy.xml in my wwwroot folder, as well as in the folder for each of the two applications above (just in case). I have tried to promote NTLM over Negotiate as a provider (as that worked for another issue I was having on another server).
After trying some changes, I can't even get the thing to behave the same each time I call it. Sometimes it will prompt me for credentials. Other times it will work, but then say it failed to connect with the WCF service with a "not found". Other times it will actually work fine, but only if I am using the actual server name and not the CNAME. When using the CNAME I always get the crossdomain error, even though I have the cross-domain xml files in every directory root.
This is a nightmare, and makes advanced algorithm analysis seem fun and easy by comparison. Did Microsoft realize how difficult they made this combination of (IIS7/WCF/Silverlight/providers/permissions/cryptic or missing error messages) to get to work??
I found a solution that appears to be working.
In this case, I had to change the authentication mode for the default web site (which hosted the clientaccesspolicy.xml file) from anonymous access to Windows Integrated. I don't understand why this worked for a year or so and then stopped, but it seems to have resolved it.
The new application that I had deployed yesterday was a standard ASP.NET web application, which I put in it's own application directory and it's own application pool, to ensure that it would not cause this sort of issue. I'm still not even sure if it did.
The way I resolved it was by trying to navigate from my PC to the actual http://servername/clientaccesspolicy.xml file, and that was giving me a 401 error. I switched from anonymous to windows integrated on that default website (which has nothing in it except for that xml file) and that resolved the permission issue. I then had to permission the actual AD groups to have read access to that folder (if not they got the user/pw prompt and could not get through).
I know I've had this problem when I started working with Silverlight, but I can't for the life of me remember how to fix it.
I created a new RIA service application using the standard tutorial, added a table from the database and added a grid to display the results. Works great. Now I pull open the Web properties and change the web project to "use local IIS Web server". Suddenly the application will load up and give me the friendly "NotFound" error.
Please, someone remind me what I'm missing here.
I ran into this problem recently, and resolved it with help from this post on the silverlight.net forums.
Basically, I had Windows authentication and annonymous access enabled at the same time, and I need to disable windows authentication and restart IIS.
John
Not sure what the missing part is but I always start with Fiddler as will show the messages going across the wire. The actual messages can contains far more useful that the browser is hiding from the Silverlight plugin