Silverlight 2 is released to the web, and the world’s economies rebound. Coincidence?
This morning’s announcements (about Silverlight, not the economy) are thoughtfully summarized and peppered with links at Tim Heuer’s blog.
If you have been developing with Silverlight 2 Beta 2, it’s hard for me to imagine the move to RTW being traumatic for you. I moved all my projects from Beta 2 to the Release Candidate when it was released a few weeks back, and had no trouble updating my code to account for several breaking changes made to the API. All of my projects transitioned this morning from Silverlight 2 RC0 to Silverlight 2 RTW without any apparent issues.
Update 15 Oct: Apps hosted on Silverlight Streaming (like my FractLOL) are working for me with RTW under Firefox 3.0.3, but NOT IE7…
Update 16 Oct: …or any other version of Internet Explorer. And strike that bit about economic recovery as well.
Congratulations to everyone involved with the release! Off we go to light up the web.
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Posted Oct 14th, 2008
into Developer, Microsoft, Silverlight
with tags Release to Web
8 Comments »
When I go to your deeplol page, it asks me to get silverlight. Even after I install and restart all instances of IE I still get the same install required screen.
Hi Rakesh – that is really odd, I am getting the same thing as you now. I don’t recall if I had it working under IE before. It works fine for me in Firefox 3, but NOT under IE7. Do you have FireFox installed, and if so, could I trouble you to test it under FireFox? Maybe Silverlight Streaming is not updated all the way to RTW after all.
Ya it is working in FF as you mentioned. but not in ie(7/8).
what surprised me was deepzoom on hardrock memorablia page seems to be working fine.
Wow. the HardRock page crashed my IE7 completely. Twice!
Using Firefox, I looked at the page source and it looks like they aren’t using the Silverlight Streaming service. That would explain it – the Hardrock folks have updated their own service.
I have exactly the same problem – my streaming hosted Silverlight 2 RTW apps run fine under FireFox but fail under IE 6, 7, 7
Let me know if you find a solution.
That should be IE 6, 7, 8
Apparently Silverlight Streaming has not yet been updated see
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-released-officially.aspx
David – I caught Tim’s entry and yes, I am eagerly awaiting an update on Silverlight Streaming now…