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Using Silverlight 2 on a production Web Server

  • Artikkeli

I recently ran into an issue with using Silverlight 2 on a production web server.   Basically the Silverlight 2 application worked great on my dev machine, but when hit from the production web server I found the page has the Silverlight control, but just a white canvas, nothing else.

image The problem was that the web server was not set up to handle the .xap file extension that Silverlight 2 uses to encapsulate the code for the application. 

A few options for fixing this issue:

1. For IIS6, simply add the .XAP filetype.

2. For II7, this should just work as IIS7 enables them all by default.

3. Other web services such as Apache, lighttpd, etc.  Just make sure the server is configured to allow access to .xaml, .wmv and .xap files and you should be all set

4.  Sometimes you can't easily go in and change the setting on the server.   So the solution I actually used was none of these.  I just renamed the .XAP file to .ZIP, changed the reference in my applications .Xaml file and it ran fine! 

 

Hope that helps!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
    PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/14/using-silverlight-2-on-a-production-web-server.aspx

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
    Using Silverlight 2, which is in BETA, on a production web server especially for use by users outside of my company would not be possible.  Beta software is not allowed on production servers and especially ones visible to outside users.

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
    >>Sometimes you can't easily go in and change the setting on the server.   So the solution I actually used was none of these.  I just renamed the .XAP file to .ZIP<< Brad, so why didn't MSFT just use .ZIP to begin with so we wouldn't have to change it back to Zip? Can you suggest to make the extension to Zip rather than XAP? Thanks! ..Ben

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
    Silverlight 2 now packs all the files needed to run the application in a XAP file (which is essentially

  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2008
    @Rob: well, when putting Silverlight 2 beta on production web server means that you simple only put a FILE on the web server, nothing different than a TXT file. Silverlight applications will only be executed on the client side, so it is no problem to put any beta Silverlight app on production servers. Michael

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    March 16, 2008
    I recently ran into an issue with using Silverl

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