I would like to choose which versions of Silverlight plugin to target, but can't find any recent statistics on the install base, let alone the version break down. Statowl.com/silverlight.php isn't returning any data and riastats.com is down. Some articles are referencing a 76% web clients installation base around 2012 with high Silverlight version 4 usage, but that's pretty outdated information. Does anyone have up to date information for the Silverlight plugin install base, preferably with version breakdown?
The client is backwards compatible. I think you will find most users are running the V5 client as that is pushed out with MS updates and was released 2+ years ago. You can set the min runtime version on the html Silverlight plugin element to alert users running an older version to upgrade to a version compatible with the version your app is compiled against.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917842(v=vs.95).aspx
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How to install 6.5 & 6.5.1 in eclipse(more detail below)
Intellij Toolbox last version supported is 2019.2.4 but looks like codeone plugin doesn't support it?
In intellij, codenameone 6.5.1 simulator is not working(font is way too small) but it's working in 6.0.0 with my eclipse(from when I played with it 6 months ago). I am trying to test out each version to see what the latest version is that is not broken for me(hopefully at least 6.5). When I go to eclipse marketplace, there is no upgrade and it just shows this for codename one (eclipse verison 2020-06 as I clicked update all)
I don't see a way to download a zip file and install it in eclipse and only see the install from marketplace method here
https://www.codenameone.com/download.html#step2
Is there a zip download for eclipse somewhere I can try of 6.5, then 6.5.1?
I also want to try to downgrade my intellij version but we also need the latest so I grabbed the new intellij toolbox but this only goes back to version 2019.2.4. The compatibility list on codenameone plugin is such
I wonder about that first line for 6.5.1. A dot release and they added support all the way back to 2016 version which 6.5 didn't have? Seems like a type. Also, 6.5.1 did not work with latest intellij and honestly getting worn down in playing the version mismatch game of uninstall/install to see what works and doesn't work (it's just takes quite a bit of time).
If anyone can post a STABLE list of IDE version / plugin version they are using, I would LOVE to know that <- If I know that, I will just jump to that. I can cope with eclipse or intellij. In fact, eclipse debugging is way better and intellij refactoring is way better so I am always torn between each.
Trying 2019.1.4 with many versions next.
Figure this out finally. Not sure exactly but this repo https://github.com/deanhiller/codenameOneExamples
now works with latest intelij 2020.1.3 !!
I updated Silverlight on my dev. machine, but clients still have older Silverlight version and they do not want to update.
Now I need to revert Silverlight 4 back to older version (50401). I tried to uninstall Silverlight and install older version, this required my to install developer tools, too.
No luck, still it requires newer version on clients machines. So I suppose real version is inside developer tools?
The question is, how do I make VS2010 to compile project for specific Silverlight 4 build?
I already stumbled on that kind of problem, and I had to re-install my sdk.
Check out that great article from Tim Heuer:
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/09/28/keeping-your-silverlight-dev-environment-stable-through-service-releases.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timheuer+%28Method+%7E+of+%7E+failed+by+Tim+Heuer%29
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.
We've noticed a compatibility issue with a Silverlight 3 app which runs fine with v3.0.40818, v3.0.50106 and v4.0.50401 but refuses to load in v3.0.40624. Instead it gives a message box saying a more recent version of Silverlight is required.
Does anyone know what the changes were between 3.0.40624 and 3.0.40818 or why the app might not be compatible?
I think you'll find that 3.0.40624 is a Beta version of Silverlight 3. You should recommend to any users you have that still have this Beta version to upgrade.
How safe is it to use Silverlight in production for a graphic form?
Is it installed on most computers, do to Windows Update feature?
If so, which version is it installed? What is the safest target version?
I don't know whether it's installed on most computers, but the number is growing. It's a small download and if it's not installed the user can install it with a single click.
This page has some graphs:
Adobe Flash is on 97% of computers.
Silverlight is on 55% of computers.
Java is on 73%
I have no idea how accurate these figures are, but they seem to be believable.
Once installed it uses Windows Update to keep itself up to date.
As Anthony states the current released version is 3. Version 4 is at Release Candidate and will probably be released within the next couple of months (as of March 2010). I originally thought that the update would happen automatically, but the RIA Stats page indicated that Silverlight 2 and even 1 were still installed on some machines so this can't be the case.
My company is using silverlight 3, this is the current version, silverlight 4 is currently a RC.
Safest version to target right now is Silverlight 3. At Mix10 it was indicated that Silverlight has 60% coverage.
Windows Update may patch an existing Install I doubt it will push Silverlight or perform a major upgrade (imagine the law suit that would result in).