Debugging Services Consumed from Silverlight

If you're used to debugging ASP.NET web applications together with WCF services, you will know that Visual Studio automatically attaches the debugger to the service process in addition to the website. When you It doesn't do this for services being called from Silverlight. Instead, Visual Studio will probably warn you that the service call will fail, but we've taken care of that problem with the behavior extension from the previous post.

The solution is fairly obvious: you will have to make sure that the debugger is attached to both your web application and your service.

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WCF Service Host with Silverlight

If you've ever developed a Silverlight web application in conjunction with WCF services, you have probably run into some challenges when it comes to debugging the solution as a whole. Silverlight applications are limited to using services from the same server and port number as the application itself, unless the service explicitly allows external access through a clientaccesspolicy.xml file.

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