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Silverlight 5 Deployment


Is it possible to host a silverlight 5 application with iis 5.1 ?
I've developed and application using

I've no idea is it possible to install silverlight application with above specifications on machine uses windows XP and IIS 5 or not.
If it's possible please give me helpful link or any tip should I know .
P S : For now I don't have alternative option and I've to deploy my application on Windows XP . It is single user application but developed with Silverlight .
I would be great if I could create setup application that install silverlight application on user's machine and all dependencies such as WCF Ria , EntityFramework , SQL Compact , and etc. Is this possible ? I am using Visual Studio 2012 .


Solution

  • yes, I think it should be possible to do so. Although I dont have IIS 5 but I have faced the same problem in IIS 6. IIS 5 and IIS 6 does not have any inbuild support for extension .XAP and so does not support Silverlight by default. To make it support .XAP we must have to add MIME type in IIS.

    For Adding MIME types in IIS server, follow below mentioned steps: