Lightswitch VB.net Get URL & Port

Question

Hi

Is it possible to get the URL and port where an app is residing through code?

I need to assign a string variable the value of my LS Server URL & port.

If possible please could you provide some sample code in vb.net

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

see:http://codeinjected.blogspot.com/2014/09/lightswitch-signalr-in-vbnet.html

This article contains some sample client and server code in VB.NET: SignalR and VB.Net: Hubs and objects

You may have more luck to search about using SignalR in Silverlight. I believe you just need to install the SignalR client library into the LS Silverlight client project to get the client side set up and then follow the code for the client aspect in the above link.

Although this article is in C#, it may give you some clues:

SignalR with Silverlight 5

Answer 2

This is in C# but you should be able to translate:

How to get hosting website url in silverlight application?

Basically:

// This will give you the location of the page hosting the .xap file:

var pageUri = System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Document.DocumentUri.ToString();

// This will give you the location of your .xap file:

var applicationUri = System.Windows.Application.Current.Host.Source.AbsoluteUri;

Hope this helps.

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