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Hey everyone,

I'm trying to build a FSX flight tracker using Silverlight and Beatle's SimConnect library (beta 3), but I can't seem to make it connect to FSX.

I originally tried the MovingMapSL sample, but I didn't have the Virtual Earth library. I got the newer version of the Bing Maps library, and got everything to show up alright, but it didn't seem to want to connect to FSX. I tried creating a new project and moving the code over (since I thought something may have gotten lost in the VS2008 project -> VS2010 project conversion), but it still didn't work.

I'm not getting any messages from the SimConnect event handlers I set up either.

I haven't got any prior experience in Silverlight, but I have done some stuff with the SDK's SimConnect library in both VB.NET and C# winforms programs.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on where to start?

Thanks,
Orion
 
Are you running the Silverlight Policy Server (source included in my SDK) on the FSX computer (this is required to allow Silverlight apps to make socket connections)? Did you add an entry to your SimConnect.XML file to allow connections on a port that Silverlight can connect to (has to be in the range 4502 - 4534 - I generally use 4504 for IPv4 and 4506 for IPv6). See the section "A note on Silverlight Support" in the readme included with the SDK.
 
Nope. Must have skipped over that bit. Ran the policy server and added the SimConnect.xml and it works nicely. Thanks Tim!
 
Glad that got you running, it's a real pain but the only way to make Silverlight do socket communications (which is at least better than the Windows Phone version of Silverlight which doesn't do any Socket communications at all currently).
 
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