After the retirement of Silverlight, I am finding a hard time finding the Silverlight Developer Runtime for download.
I need to set up a dev environment to compile a Silverlight 5 app with VS 2015.
Any ideas where I can get it?
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I want to know more in detail about th developer runtime of silverlight
what is silverlight developer runtime ? and why we need it ?
The developer runtime is a special debugging version of the browser Silverlight plugin. It replaces the release version you would normally install in your browser.
You need it so Visual Studio can debug your Silverlight applications.
Please note that occasionally Silverlight prompts for upgrades. You must not upgrade via a web browser or you will replace your developer runtime with the retail/release version. You want to look for a more recent developer runtime release instead
The developer runtime is needed to be able to debug the Silverlight applications using Visual Studio.
I am trying to integrate IronPython in my Silverlight application but am unable to do so. After downloading the binaries, every time I try to add the dlls as references in my VS2010 solution all I get is an error about them not being compiled for Silverlight. I have even tried downloading the source distribution, but cannot set the various projects making up the solution to build against Silverlight (the only choices I have are different versions of the .net framework).
As the IronPython website explicitly states Silverlight compatibility, why is it not working? Is there any easier way of getting scripting capabilities in my Silverlight app?
You have to use binaries from IronPython-2.6.1\Silverlight\bin folder in Silverlight.
I've been developing for and running Silverlight 4 for about a week. A week ago I installed the Silverlight 4 design time components to develop and debug silverlight for VS 2010 - I posted some of these apps and they were used by users running SL4. Today, I went to a website that told me to upgrade my SL (I think it was the MS expression site) - so I did that and all the sudden I get this error when running SL 4 apps within VS 2010.
The silverlight developer runtime is not installed please install a matching version
Installing the latest version of the Silverlight SDK does not correct this. Basically I am stuck and unable to run Silverlight apps from VS2010.
Are versioning problems like this a common theme in SilverLight? The only thing I can think of is that there is a minor version difference between the versions used on the the MS Expression web site and the version (SL4) I installed from MS site a few days ago? However re-installing the latest version of SL4 does not correct this.
Any help?
The developer runtime is a different download than the normal "end user" runtime.
Again quoting from Tim Heur's Blog, you need to look for the link under "getting the updates" that points to the developer runtime. This will allow you to debug etc.
I have some code which is in Silverlight 3. I am unable to move to SL4 at this time.
I would however like to use VS 2010 to do my SL 3 development... and SL4 development.
The idea of both runtimes coexisting on 1 machine i thought I heard Microsoft got
right this time in VS 2010.
is this correct?
if yes, then Where can I find the instructions how to set this up?
thanks for any help you can provide,
Sincerely,
J
Silverlight is not side-by-side. VS 2010 provides multi-targeting support for the full .NET framework, which is side-by-side, but NOT Silverlight.
There can only be one version of the Silverlight plugin and runtime on the machine.
That said, if you want to build code targeting one or the other, that is possible by checking in the Silverlight versions to your source enlistment. This post is a little outdated but provides an example for doing this for SL2 and SL3.
I have deployed website using silverlight 3.0.40307.0. It is working perfectly in Local IIS. But when client will installs the newer version of silverlight like 3.0.40626 or higher, It wan't be able to view website.
How to get silverlight 3.0.40307 (old version of 3.0 beta)?
What is the possible solution to deploy silverlight website on IIS?
What silverlight component should be installed on server to view silverlight application on browser?
Can we install silverlight TOOL without VS2008+SP1? if yes, then how?
You need to upgrade your version of Silverlight to the released version. You can't expect users to run beta software because you would be forcing them to use software that is known to contain defects.
You need to download the latest version of the SDK and templates from here.
Clients need only the Silverlight runtime plugin for their browser. There's no way you can enforce the client to install the SL 3 Beta version of the plugin you want; and even if you do, there's no (easy) way to prevent it from self-updating to the RTM version. Not only that, but asking clients to install a Beta version of a released product is a security threat for them.
There's no official way to get the SL 3 Beta runtime installer.
An SL app is a client-side code; on the server side you only need standard IIS that serves HTML with an tag and the .xap file for the SL application.
There are no SL components required to be installed on the server for the client to run the SL app.
You can't install the Silverlight Visual Studio Tools without VS2008 SP1 - as their name suggests, the tools are intended to integrate with VS. However, you can install the SL SDK and build SL applications without having VS2008 SP1. (Alternatively, you could use MonoDevelop/Mono/Moonlight to develop SL applications)
If you have deployed your silverlight app that is compiled with Silverlight version 3.0.4.0307.0(i.e. Silverlight Beta), your app may work perfectly for the users with Silverlight 3(RTM).
However, if those visitors come across your silverlight app who doesn't have Silverlight installed at all(or maybe lower than Silverlight 3 Beta), they will be prompted to download Silverlight to view your app.
Once they wish to download Silverlight runtime by clicking on the "Get Silverlight" button, visitors will be redirected to Silverlight download location, and the most important part is
**They will get a message explaining that this app is made with Beta version of the Silverlight.
So this may hamper thier experience and impression about your silverlight app and because of this very few people can get to your app correctly **
It is my suggestion that you try to compile your project with Silverlight 3 as early as possible .
Regarding 2nd question What is the possible solution to deploy silverlight website on IIS?
Here is the Answer : You'll need to register the MIME types for xap on your server.