Heres a nice stepbystep guide to adding the mime type on. Configuring iis for silverlight applications thiago gomes. Under mime map, click the file types tab and select new type. This action was taken in iis 6 to make web servers more secure, but you can allow files with any extension to be served up as follows. Jun 14, 2008 really thanks, silverlight 4 application running very well on iis 6.
In the mime types dialog, click the add button to enter the following mime types. Mime types form a standard way of classifying file types on the internet. For iis 6, right click on the server name and select properties. With ria and iis 6 you want to look for a few gotchas, once you know them they are easy. All mime types needed to support silverlight are implemented by default in windows server 2008 iis 7. Rightclick your web site and select properties from the context menu. Mime types get removed by iisreset windowsserver2003 iis6 mimetype.
Set the applicationxsilverlightapp mime type jeff wilcox. Mar 03, 2008 if youre serving up silverlight applications packaged as. Mime types are not used for dynamic content, so you should never configure the web server mime types to serve php, or iis is likely to serve out your source code as plain text. Deployment to our servers, however, is a different story. All mime types needed to support silverlight are implemented by default in iis 7 and above in windows server 2008 and windows vista sp1.
Right click the web site that will host the silverlight app and click properties. How to solve unhandled error in silverlight application code. If you want your application to download files over your corporate internet, using file. How to enable silverlight support on windows 2003 server. Different browsers serve different mime types for the same files. In the properties dialog box, click mime types button. Despite occasional misconception, silverlight doesnt require a microsoftbased web server. Dec 23, 2008 i doubt that iis is causing the problem. Jan 14, 2010 configuring iis for silverlight applications posted in hosting, iis, microsoft, uncategorized, web, windows server, windows server 2003 to enable iis 6. Jul 12, 2010 my silverlight, html5, odata and kinect talks coming up. Configuring iis for silverlight applications microsoft docs. You should adjust the content expiration setting to 1 minute. The zip bundle will help the client download the sdk. Mime types are configured for static content, so the web server can alert the client browser in the header of the response what type of data to expect and render.
In the mime types dialog box, click new button to enter the following mime types. Nov 23, 2010 with ria and iis 6 you want to look for a few gotchas, once you know them they are easy. Silverlight applications are downloaded by browsers through xap files. Commenter is possibly correct, and serverfault is possibly a better place for questions like this. But when you run the application from an iis virtual directory most probably you will encounter the below error. Jul 17, 2012 mime stands for multipurpose internet mail extensions. Net download cache and the silverlight isolated storage cache testing and changing application code that is making use of the iis download features like xbap or silverlight, then you should beware of the multiple caches used by the web severer as well as client side caches. How to solve unhandled error in silverlight application. Apache can host up silverlight content just as happily as iis. Requirements management rup sharepoint portal server silverlight software. If you host xap files on a cdn or other host such as amazon s3, you need to have the server configured with the new silverlight mime type.
I found an article which tells me to add a new mime type. Click on the file types button and use the resulting dialog to add file extensions and mime types. Configuring iis for silverlight applications btnhd. Open iis manager and open the properties of the iis node. This is caused by the iis server not being configured to allow. Deploying silverlight content to a production web server is a pretty easy process. Feb 10, 2009 this blog explains the process of configuring silverlight 2. After the silverlight control is created, it contains a property called source which points to the xaml file to be loaded. Click new and make sure you screen looks like the following.
Windows vista rtm customers can add mime types by running iis manager, clicking on mime types. Configuring a web server to host silverlight content tim sneath. Mime stands for multipurpose internet mail extensions. When using this module on your server for the first time, you receive. I have learned more than i care to know about iis, handlers, and other server stuff while trying to get my silverlight wria applications running on our servers. Just create a new page add insert silverlight web part in, then go to silverlight application bin folder and find. Iis smooth streaming features microsoft silverlight. We need to tell the web server about the silverlight packaged applications that web browsers will ask to download. Mime type when you upload, or when clients download your.
Although probably not applicable in your case, this can also occur if you are using iis and havent registered the correct mime type for. Hosting xaml files for silverlight without registering. In iis management, click on the root node under internet information services. For iis 6, rightclick the silverlightapplicationsample folder and. Really thanks, silverlight 4 application running very well on iis 6. A silverlight control is not rendered in a web page that is served by iis. This article suggests a workaround to host simple silverlight applications with xaml files where they are blocked by isp or mime type is not yet updated in iis. Deploying wcf and silverlight applications on iis 5 and 7.
When doing the deployment, the mime types need to be mapped in. You can deploy a windows presentation foundation wpf application from most web servers, as long as they are configured with the appropriate multipurpose internet mail extensions mime types. Silverlight connect timeout if the silverlight app has a longer load time. Iis 7, included in windows server 2008, already includes all the relevant mime types for both wpf and silverlight, including both. I have a script that creates an app pool, web site and then i want to use adsutil to add the. If youre using microsoft iis, see this article at microsoft technet. Unable to connect to silverlight application progress test studio. Deploying silverlight wcf ria services on iis 6 refactor. Go to iis manager refer to the images in step 5, above.
Click new type and add the following 3 mime types for silverlight. Web servers and browsers all have a list of mime types, so that they can transfer files of the same type in the same way. Properly configuring server mime types web security mdn. You can find out specifics in the breaking changes reference when you do not need to configure the mime type. You must register some mime types and file extensions so that the. In iis, browse to mime types and check for verbs and extensions like. Deploying and configuring silverlight 4 and wcf ria services. Configuring a web server to host silverlight content tim. I am creating an installer for a silverlight application and would like to be able to register the.
Let me start by saying that i took over for a software developer working at a company recently. This is a fairly straightforward process of adding mime types, but the process is different for each web server. Jpg files are uploaded with imagepjpeg mimetype when using ie and imagejpeg,when using firefox. Mar 25, 2008 mime types are configured for static content, so the web server can alert the client browser in the header of the response what type of data to expect and render. Is there a way to accomplish this without editing the regist. Configuring iis for silverlight applications thomas maurer. Right click on the virtual directory and go into the properties. For information about how to register a mime type, see the article iis 6. Jan 06, 2012 in iis, browse to mime types and check for verbs and extensions like. I have compiled a full list of mime types using the mime. Windows vista customers can add mime types by running iis manager, clicking mime types, then clicking add, and then adding the following mime types xap applicationx. For example, to add the xml mime type to the default web site using the iis snapin.
This is because by default iis 6 will not serve up files that have file extensions with unknown mime types. All iis does is to serve these file types as static files. Below is an example of what you need to do for iis6. Historically, firefox has loaded css files even if they had the wrong mime type, as long as the html document that requested them was being processed in quirks mode. I am trying to deploy a silverlight app to iis on a. If i leave it as 2 it works correctly and only asks to download a new version if the current version is older than the minruntimeversion provided, but once i have downloaded the newest version it never opens clientbineut. For iis 7, click on the server name in the left panel. Deploying silverlight wcf ria services on iis 6 refactor this. Configuring iis for silverlight applications posted in hosting, iis, microsoft, uncategorized, web, windows server, windows server 2003 to enable iis 6. I do not know very much about iis6 or silverlight but that is what the application i am asked to add to the server is written. Setup your server for silverlight 4 and wcf ria services. Complete list of all mime types with their description, file extension and full documentation. Web servers and browsers all have a list of mime types, so that they can transfer files of the same type in the same way, no matter what operating system they are working in. Windows vista rtm customers can add mime types by running iis manager, clicking on mime types, then clicking add and adding the following mime types.
Here is a example you can add the silverlight application into the feature then deployed to the server. Html5 video mime types setup on apache and iis servers. By default, many web servers are configured to report a mime type of textplain or. Here are some tips and lessons learned from my deployment.
If youre serving up silverlight applications packaged as. If a silverlight control is not rendered in a web page that is served by iis, the likely cause is that the. You can deploy a windows presentation foundation wpf application from most web servers, as long as they are configured with the appropriate multipurpose internet mail extensions. Without the mime type youll find that your silverlight apps seem to hang trying to download. Filtering removes some silverlight local help from the visual studio table of contents, index, and search results. Nov 28, 2007 this article suggests a workaround to host simple silverlight applications with xaml files where they are blocked by isp or mime type is not yet updated in iis. This blog explains the process of configuring silverlight 2. For example if you try to upload a text file that has the extension.
The following procedure outlines how to do this with iis. Net based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web. Jun 29, 2005 this is because by default iis 6 will not serve up files that have file extensions with unknown mime types. When doing the deployment, the mime types need to be mapped in iis by following the below steps.
If your stylesheet comes from a different origin than the document, you must serve it with. Radupload does not determine the mimetype using only the file extension. Bills iis blog how to add mime types with iis7 nfig. The mime type for your xap file is not properly registered on your web server. However, appropriate mime types have to be added to the iis.
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