Nov
17
2009
Here is a little snippet that will let you make a remote AJAX call from inside Silverlight - the only catch is that you will get a "security warning" dialog for making a crossdomain call
ScriptObjectCollection scriptCollection = HtmlPage.Document.GetElementsByTagName("head");
HtmlElement head = (HtmlElement)scriptCollection[0];
HtmlElement script = HtmlPage.Document.GetElementById("dataAccess_js");
if (script == null)
{
script = HtmlPage.Document.CreateElement("script");
script.SetAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
script.Id = "dataAccess_js";
StringBuilder sbScript = new StringBuilder();
sbScript.AppendLine("function createXMLHttpRequest() { var httprequest = false; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { httprequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); if (httprequest.overrideMimeType) httprequest.overrideMimeType(\"text/xml\"); } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { try { httprequest = new ActiveXObject(\"Msxml2.XMLHTTP\"); } catch (e) { try { httprequest = new ActiveXObject(\"Microsoft.XMLHTTP\"); } catch (e) { } } } return httprequest; }");
sbScript.AppendLine("function retrieveContent(url) { var request = createXMLHttpRequest(); request.open(\"GET\", url, false); request.send(null); if (request.status == 200) { var text = request.responseText; return text; } else { alert(\"Error loading \" + url); } }");
script.SetProperty("text", sbScript);
head.AppendChild(script);
}
var result = HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("retrieveContent", sURL);