I have a silverlight application and i have already checked the box that enables OOB. When i run the program from the IDE and i right click on the browser, i do not get an option to install the application. Instead i have an option to remove the application.
I would like to get an icon that other users can just click on in order to run the application. Is there a reason why i do not have the option to install the application when i run my program?
If it matters i am using silverlight 5.
thanks!
You have the option to remove the application means you have installed out of browser in the past, after clicking "remove the application" you will have the option to install the application locally.
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I have a task to make large Silverlight project run out of browser.
Fortunatelly I don't have to rewrite it to some other technology. Unfortunatelly I can not understand how to make it work OOB. I tried everything that's in guides :
enabling OOB option, installing and tryiung to debug installed app, but main thing is that when I run this app OOB I can't reach any services (no matter how I try HTML Bridge is disabled in OOB).
Is there a way to reach those services (like https://localhost/WCFRest/GetUserInfo?login=somelogin&password=somepassword) from OOB enviroment?
What should I do to reach them?
I'm sorry if this is noob quetion but I can't ask anyone else.
I assume you have a Web project in your solution. I think you changed the startup project to the silverlight project. You need to start up the Web project too.
Do the following:
Right click on the solution in the Solution Explorer and select Properties.
Select "Multiple startup projects" and set the action to "Start" (on the web project)
Or just simply right click on a HTML or ASPX file in the web project and select "View in Browser".
We have a WPF Clickonce application, whcih is deployed in Server. It is working perfectly in IE. The application started installing on single click. But in Firefox and Chrome, the file was downloaded. How to overcome this? I know there are some plug-ins which will allow this as IE.
But my question is, Can I add these plugins into my application pre-requisites? Or what is the good approach to do that. Is there anyway that I could install the plugins by detecting the browsers before starting the clickonce app? I don't want my end users to do that.
Even if you find a way to embed plugins into ClickOnce-bootstrapper ("pre-requisite") you'll have to tell user to run it explicitly. ClickOnce doesn't support installing of dependencies transparently. You'll have an .exe file which user need to run. Usually VS wizard generates an html page (publish.html) which has client code for detecting missing pre-requisites. But actually it detects only missing .NET.
So you have to write some js-code for detecting missing/installed extensions for each browser you want to support.
Check this SO question: Checking if user has a certain extension installed
In anyway if a user has a link to .application and opens it in the browser then all pre-requisites will be ignored. As actually ClickOnce itself doesn't have such a feature as "pre-requisites" or "dependencies". It's just a helper for generating totally separated setup.exe bootstrapper.
Here links for extensions:
Firefox addin for ClickOnce applications - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/microsoft-net-framework-assist/
Google Chrome addin for ClickOnce applications - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eeifaoomkminpbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl
I have a Silverlight application that runs out-of-browser. I was previously able to get the statement Path.GetTempFileName to work when I run out-of-browser but not when running locally. Now this is failing out-of-browser also.
I am getting this error
Message
File operation not permitted. Access to path '' is denied.
I am editing this because I have new information. I have another application which is very similar where I am not getting the problem. That is Path.GetTempFileName works fine. I cannot see any differences between the applications.
I need some hints as to what could be different between the two application. I am running both locally in debug.
Have you checked the Out of Browser settings in the Silverlight Project Properties page? There is a checkbox "Require elevated trust when running out of browser.
On the ShortCut not working. Try uninstalling the app from the Control panel and reinstalling. Then try it again.
I have an start up page called Default.aspx . Have written an javscript function inside the Head tag which opens an other aspx page and closes this page . The other aspx page of mine has silverlight object/ content render on that page . Due to this my debugger doesnt gets attached to the running silverlight application , also when i go to manually attach to the running Silverlight Application it doesnt works , i saw that type of process shown is script / silverlight / x86.
I am doing this all as my login page is only created in silverlight .
Any one have idea how can i get debugger atached.
Edit :
Below link explains the same what i am facing :
Visual Studio Attach to Process - change default automatic code type (Silverlight instead of Script)
To enable Silverlight debugging:
Right click on the Web project hosting the Silverlight application in Solution Explorer
Select "Properties"
Click the "Web" tab
Check the "Silverlight" box in the "Debuggers" section
I had problems debugging Silverlight in Chrome, while in IE it worked like a charm
A very nice utility is the WoVS Default Browser Switcher which can be installed using the Extension Manager (Tools | Extension Manager...)
This tool allows you to set the default browser to be used when debugging your project. In my experience Visual Studio only connects well to IE.
Using the tool I can keep another browser as my default browser but use IE for debugging.
Just use IE as default browser.
It doesn't work properly until you check silver-light debug checkbox and use IE as the others told.
By the way set web application as start-up project.
I'm writing a Silverlight OOB application. Once the user has installed it, I would like the in-browser experience, on next visit, to just have a button to launch the OOB version. I know the API call to detect that it's installed, but I'm not sure to open my main Page control as or within a Window. Currently my in-browser view changes to say "Please launch from the installed shortcut" but that seems like it should be unnecessary. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks.
Unfortunately launching OOB app from the web page is not supported. This is commonly requested feature, but it looks like SL5 is not going to address it.