Archive for April, 2008

SilverPart Beta 1.0 released on Codeplex - Expose Silverlight content in SharePoint

April 2, 2008

SilverPart

RIA

Just released a new version of the SilverPart webpart on CodePlex. This new release supports Silverlight 2 Beta 1. Among the new features are:

  • Ability to expose Silverlight Applications 1.0 or Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Applications in SharePoint 2007 or WSS 3.0 websites
  • Support for Silverlight 2 applications (.xap files)
  • Enhanced Web Part Editor to expose only relevant properties when a plug-in version is selected
  • Ability to specify multiple JavaScript code-behind files (Silverlight 1.0)
  • No need to make changes to the SharePoint web.config file (e.g. configure Ajax Extensions)
  • No need to have ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions installed (it doesn’t use the ASP.NET Silverlight Control to instantiate the plugin)
  • Ability to configure the image and URL to download Silverlight in case the plugin is not installed

    • Go to Codeplex to get the files:

    http://www.codeplex.com/silverpart

    AN.

    Posted in RIA, SharePoint, Silverlight | 1 Comment »

    IE Crashing with Silverlight 2 - Part II - It was not Fixed ! But it’s now !

    April 1, 2008

    This is just a follow-up on my previous post IE Crashing with Silverlight 2 - Fixed it ! It was about IE crashing with Silverlight 2 and I thought I had fixed it re-installing the plug-in again.

    But it turns out it was not fixed. Recently I started to experience the crashes again. So back into troubleshooting mode. Again, I’ve used fiddler and noticed those HTTP requests to go.microsoft site again. So it just came to my mind that Silverlight has an automatic update setting. If you right click any Silverlight content you can see the configuration window.

     Click on Updates tab and then select the option to Never check for updates

    Silverlight Configuration Window

    Changing this fixed the problem and those HTTP requests disappeared. Now, by changing this you will never have the plugin updated automatically which can be a vulnerability to security threats if you don’t have an update method in place. If you are deploying Silverlight through Group Policies in a company you can set this option via a group policy that sets a registry key.

    Give it a try and see if that fixes your crashing problems. It did for me and this time I think is for good. I can say again “I’m happy”

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