I'm on Mac running parallels with windows XP and IE8 installed. The options I find either don't work with my version of Firefox or dont install correctly on the windows side. Do you know of any emulators for internet explorer?
What I'm looking for is to emulate websites in ie7 and ie6 to check. I know of IE=EmulateIE7 but will that force all users in IE8 to view in IE7? I'd rather fix my code than force someone to view in a different mode...
SuperPreview in Expression Blend can do that. See this answer.
Alternatively, you can create another Windows XP image with just IE6 and run it using Parallels.
IETester is the way to go. IE 5.5, 6, 7, 8 in one package.
Try using one of Microsoft's VirtualPC images for IE7. They give them away for free but they expire every couple of months.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en
You can download VirtualPC in Windows. It will probably run really slow in Parallels but you could also use Boot Camp and then run VirtualPC.
http://spoon.net/browsers/ is very handy too.
VPC is really the way to go, get the images from microsoft.
If you're already running Parallels, I'd suggest just using another VM for XP + IE7. It's the cleanest solution and provides the most reliable IE7 'emulation'.
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Is there any way to set a version number for Mac OS Desktop apps in CN1? It always shows 1.0 no matter what I write in build.xml.
I can't find any build hint that could help either.
Thanks
I see a problem here, we'll fix it for the coming update so the version from the Codename One Settings app will be respected.
I'm looking to do automatic UI testing of SilverLight applications on Mac.
There are a few tools to test SilverLight on windows but I couldn't find any that will run tests on Mac.
Anybody know of such a tool?
Shahar
I was referred to this
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UnitTestingSilverlightWithSelenium.aspx
Not the best solution but it is some a start
Microsoft's Test Manager is a very useful tool for PC.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385901.aspx
But I'm not sure if its possible for Mac. So you can just test for browsers run on PC. Firefox is also available on Mac as far as I know. I don't think Safari browser behaves diffrent because silverlight is a plugin and most of your code work on this plugin.
I have installed silverlight 2 on windows server 2003. but when I browse silverlight sites, nothing is shown. Please help me?
On windows 2003 the first thing I look at when there is a problem like that is to look at the browser permissions relating to the site. It could be that your IE settings won't allow it to use the silverlight control.
Make sure that you've installed the Silverlight plugin in your browser. It doesn't have anything to do with Windows Server 2003 OS, as it is a cross-platform, cross-browser .NET plugin.
If you are using the IE7 browser and having problems then you may want to check out this thread on the Silverlight forums "Silverlight will not work with IE 7"
It turns out that a firewall software causes this problem.
I've been searching through the Microsoft Silverlight site, and I am guessing the answer to my question will be no.
But is there any non official or official version of the Silverlight development SDK for Mac OS?
I want to avoid installing Windows, but I want to develop in Silverlight.
The answer is yes, you surely can. You will need to use eclipse. It isn't as easy, but it sure is possible.
Good luck!
Link Heaven:
Eclipse 4 Silverlight
A video of Shawn Wildermuth showing this at the MIX09 Conference
There is also MonoDevelop which is going to support it soon, but its not quite there.
Assuming the answer you get does turn out to be "No"...
I use a VM (Parallels) to run Windows XP on my Mac Pro. The performance of Visual Studio 2008 is actually fine in this setup.
I'm using Mac OS X to develop with Silverlight 3, using IronRuby and IronPython and TextMate. It is very pleasant to use!
You can grab the Silverlight 3 Beta Runtime for Mac here and use it together with AgDlr. Grab the binaries of AgDlr here.
If you want to see samples of code that do work this way, have a look at AgDlr demos.
hope this helps!
I recently built a new application using WPF, so that I can learn the new technology. Now that I am trying to deploy the application, it appears as if it is running fine on a Vista system, but on a Windows XP SP2 machine with the .Net fx 3.5SP1, it's not able to load the PresentationFramework.dll file.
I did some further investigation into this and discovered that there is a slight build difference between the PresentationFramework.dll files on my xp test machines vs. what is on my Vista development machine.
What I'm curious about is if anyone else has run into this issue as well, and what they did to remedy the situation so that they could develop on Windows Vista, but deploy the developed application to both Vista and XP clients.
Thanks.
I need to add to this a bit... on the vista machine and on the client machine, I've got .Net Fx 3.5 SP1. I had done a bit of digging, and found out that the PresentationFramework.dll file is the same, except the last set of versioning numbers.
Has anyone found a decent work around for this issue?
Sorry that I left this stagnant, but I figured out the issue I was running into. Turned out that there was corruption in the Windows XP box I was using as a test bed.
I was working between stackoverflow and another forum for the package I was writing the Add-in for. When I learned of the answer, this is what I posted, in case I ran into issue in the future.
I thought that I'd post this here, so
that I would have reference, and also
in case anyone else would need
reference to it for the future... I'm
working on another Dinerware Add-on
using WPF, and although it was running
fine on my development machine, every
time I'd go to run it on a test
machine (a machine ghosted like it was
in the field at a customer's
location), I kept getting weird
processing errors.
I did hours of searching online, only
to come up empty handed until I ran
across this article:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/6e5de3d8-fc02-4504-b00f-7a2192d24a48/
which gives a link to the download of
the WIC (Windows Imaging Components),
located here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e011506-6307-445b-b950-215def45ddd8&displaylang=en
For some reason, what is/was happening
is that the Windows Imaging components
have become corrupt against what my
application is looking for. TO fix
the issue, you have to:
1) navigate to
%windir%\$NtUninstallWIC$\spuninst\
and run the spuninst.exe file in
there. That will remove the Windows
imaging components. 2) after you have
completely removed the components, you
will then re-install them using the
second link from above.
So far, I've not run into any further
issues.
What a crazy thing that
was?!?!?!?!?!?!!
Hopefully, if someone else runs into this issue, I may be able to help them out quick by >putting this out there.
As I said on that forum... hopefully this helps someone else out that runs into this issue in the future.
I've done a bit more experimentation and built a test WPF project and used a Setup and Deployment project instead of a WiX installer. for some reason, the application is working fine when its installed with the Setup and Deployment installer, but when using WiX, it's having issues...
Beginning to think the issue has to do with WiX, and not the .Net Fx version/build
You can have this problem sometimes with templates and Blend, although I thought it had been fixed in the latest Blend. Basically when Blend "pulls in" information for making a new template, it can sometimes copy in Aero only stuff from Vista, which means the control you then create is then reliant on Vista :-(
I did think this was fixed though, although you may have been bitten by it if the project has taken a while to put together.
Make sure that .NET Version on your Vista and XP machine are same.