I have a hobby website:
http://www.chartmygolf.com/Programs/Program.aspx
and for the first time (in six years) someone has said the circle/percentage thing that appears when the program is loading is not appearing, and consequently the program does not load. What could be causing this?
He has installed Silverlight 5.
He is in the USA so I have a bit of time to prepare some ideas. The things I have thought of so far are:
A 32/64 bit mismatch between Internet Explorer and Silverlight versions. If it is this how do I check what 32bbit or 64bit versions they have of each?
Whether they have Silverlight not Enabled in Internet Explorer. (I think this might be low odds because he tried to load it on firefox and chrome with the exactly the same problem).
Does anyone know another Silverlight website page which requires program loading, so I can check if the problem he is having is specific to my page or to Silverlight programs in general?
Jon
EDIT:
Some more info.
He is operating on Windows 7.
He went to the sample Silverlight page (Silverlight SDK Sample Browser) and it loaded most of the way. What doesn't load is the top section and the sidebar which both have spinning circles around them with 100% in the middle.
He is using IE11.
In the add-on section the Silverlight is enabled for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
I hope this can be resolved.
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We have a situation with word addins where we try to load our taskpane and use cefglue implementation to show web page. We use cefglue for the same. We just discovered that one of the vendor addins also loads chromium but an older version. Unfortunately our addin shows a message that it cant load chromium due to hash difference.
Now is it possible that 2 COM addins can load different version of chromium? The vendor change looks unlikely and I could see they don't use cefglue or cefsharp but have their own implementation. Has anyone in this situation before? We are thinking of moving our code base to use same version as theirs but again when they upgrade, we have to upgrade and we will have a window where this fails due to incompatible version. thanks
It seems there is no easy answer to this problem as word / excel can load only one libcef dll in memory. The redgate apphost could be a possible solution and I added a link to cefsharp remoting repo which I am still trying to make work but has some readymade code and could be a good starting point for someone trying to do the same thing. Best of luck and thanks #amaitland for pointers.
I'm a newbie to Direct3D technology. And was trying out D3D shared surface code found at Direct3D10, 11 and D2D in WPF - Round 2 DEMO! by Jeremiah morrill Interop.D3DImage.rename2zp. I was able to compile the code without any issues but when I run it I see a blank screen Output window
I'm using VS2013, DirectX SDK(June 2010) and windows 7 OS.
D3D is often pretty good at telling you what the problem is. If you go into the project properties, and enable native debugging, you might see messages in the output window which which will give you a clue - as long as you're running the debug version of the app of course.
There are many reasons it might be failing though - it could be that your graphics card doesn't support what the demo is doing, or that it's starting up with the wrong device settings.
I'm running my SL5 application (that has been working well so far) on Windows 8, and it is not going well. I have a background picture which usually does not render correctly, almost everytime I navigate my background (including the controls over it) just goes white till I resize IE, then it re-paints (what makes it stranger is that the parts that goes white is outside of the navigation frame, why is it getting repainted). (Chrome renders fine)
When I run my application out-of-browser my login screen pops up and works correctly but after the login screen closes it looks like the gray background of the login screen remains behind and I cannot click on anything, resizing makes no difference, it looks like every control has been disabled.
I have updated my NVidia Drivers to the latest, don't think its a display driver issue though.
Anyone else had these issues? Anyone else running SL5 fine on windows 8?
(Looks like I'll be downgrading back to windows 7 soon)
Silverlight should run great on any desktop browser in Windows 8, just like it does on Windows 7, Vista, and Mac. The underlying runtime is 100% the same. That does not mean you may not find a glitch with a graphics driver, but it means you shouldn't - and likely won't.
I did want to make a clarifying point, however, that Silverlight is not part of the Modern Internet Explorer (the Metro Internet Explorer). Only a subset of Flash is supported and that is only supported on white-listed sites.
This means Silverlight solutions that you might have expected to run on the Surface RT (running Windows RT - or Windows on Arm) will not run (as there is no SL runtime). And, I think we can all have a collective moan and ask, together, "Why not?" To which there is no acceptable answer.
The theoretical goal, of course, is to write native Windows 8 apps. If you want to write something web based you should write it in HTML5. That's the official word. I think we all know that HTML5 has a ways to go in order to catch Silverlight, but it is what it is. Can't change some things.
I have had no issues with any of my Silverlight 5 apps running on Windows 8 - I focus mainly on line of business apps but have some graphical and otherwise apps that run fine as well.
I'm only marking this as the answer to close the case, what the actual answer was to the problem we will never know. The solution: automatic updates. After much hassles with getting automatic updates to actually go through, my machine is now working well.
I am using a WPF Web Browser to show some PDF, Flash... files, the problem is that it works great in some computers, while on others it WebBrowser says it does not have the Flash plugin installed or the others...
I always thought that the WPF WebControl would pick up all the plugins the IE had installed, but for some reason it is not working properly. The stangest thing is that it works on some testing machines, that aparently have the same configurations.
Do you guys have any idea as to why this is happening?
Thanks
I got the similar issue, I was testing the same on multiple nodes, 32 bit and 64 bit ones. 64 bit Machines have separate internet explorer for 64 bit edition, you have to install a flash player for that also.
Does anyone know if silverlight plugs into chrome, or when they plan to support it?
This guy have had partial success with silverlight in chrome, but it does not seem to be supported:
http://wildermuth.com/2008/09/02/Silverlight_2_and_Google_Chrome
From The Microsoft Silverlight Team in the silverlight forum:
Hello, currently we don't have plans
to support Chrome. We will support it
in the future if it gains enough
market share. Please understand, each
browser implements the plug-in model
differently, so it'll be a lot of
effort to officially support a browser
100%... By the way, IE 8 also runs
each tab in its own process. If a tab
crashes, other tabs will still work
fine.
UPDATE:
Jon Galloway has just posted instructions on how to get silverlight successfully running on Chrome here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2008/09/17/silverlight-on-chrome.aspx
The official word on what is supported looks like this:
alt text http://www.jesseliberty.com/sl/browsers.jpg
The reality is that we do run on a lot of browsers, but things change might quickly in these here parts.
For what it is worth, the Dev Branch of Google Chrome was recently updated to support Silverlight 2. I tried it and it works for me. Of course, you have to use the Dev release of Google Chrome. You can get more information about switching to Chrome Dev here.
Silverlight already works with web-kit, and since Google's Chrome is based on web-kit, it shouldn't be too much effort to get it working.
Indeed, this gentleman seems to have had some success.
Based on this, I would suspect that Silverlight will be fully supported by Chrome by the time it goes gold.