May 2008 - Posts

• Automatically Start Silverlight on Install - Part 2

  Silverlight 2 changes the default instantiation model of the Silverlight control from Silverlight.js to the <object> tag. This change makes it seem that Automatically Starting Silverlight on Install requires rewriting our instantiation code and Read More... Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:11 AM by PiotrP | 5 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Determining if Silverlight is installed using Javascript

  In my recent post entitled Automatically Start Silverlight on Install I discussed a method for starting Silverlight once it is installed without any user interaction. The method discussed in that post relied on Silverlight.js, the helper file used for Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:09 PM by PiotrP | 5 Comments

• Automatically Start Silverlight on Install - Part 1

  The last step of the Silverlight installer is to ask the user to restart or refresh their browser. This approach forces the browser to re-evaluate the page's Silverlight instantiation logic once the control is installed. In the case of non-IE browsers, Read More... Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 8:39 PM by PiotrP | 10 Comments Filed under: Silverlight