- #HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC HOW TO#
- #HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC INSTALL#
- #HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC SOFTWARE#
- #HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC WINDOWS#
This is optional, but again, I think you should use it. overwrite – this option confirms the XAP you are installing will overwrite any existing version currently there. shortcut:desktop+startmenu – while this is optional, it actually seems silly not to include at least one – or your users will have a hard time launching your application! You can use: desktop, startmenu, or desktop+startmenu (my recommendation).
I actually recommend being smart about it and having the XAP on a real URI endpoint as well so that your origin is actually real. Even though you might not be using auto-update features, etc. origin:”URI-to-origin” – this is the ‘origin’ of the XAP and is required. This might be on a network share, on the CD, or in an installer. install:”path-toXAP-File” – this is the first and points to the XAP file you are wanting to install.
#HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC INSTALL#
The sllauncher.exe program for install require at a minimum 2 options and I’ll suggest that you always use all 4 I will describe here.
Once you have those you can move on to understanding the parameters. Your Silverlight XAP will already have to have been configured for out-of-browser and have the appropriate manifest information within it. This sometimes can cause confusion because the %ProgramFiles% environment variable on 64-bit is the native program files directory and *not* the x86 one. Since it isn’t a native 64-bit app, it will be in “Program Files (x86)” on a 64-bit machine. NOTE: Because “Program Files” is different on 32- and 64-bit machines you’ll want to make sure your script/installer can handle the determination of where the sllauncher.exe program will be. This would be the main XAP and would be the same one that would be in the Source parameter of the tag where you normally would host this. You’ll also want to have a copy of the XAP handy that you’ll want to be installing. You’ll need to ensure that the plugin is installed as I mentioned earlier. Let’s take a look at the required steps and a scenario.
#HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC HOW TO#
I’m investigating how to do something similar here with scripting on OSX, but I’m unfortunately not a Mac developer :-).
#HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC WINDOWS#
Out-of-browser applications on OSX are actually deployed as ‘apps’ (.app) versus how just the XAP is deployed on a Windows machine. NOTE: The features I’m describing here are for Windows machines. This is installed with the plugin and is located at %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight on the machine. Given those two requirements, the key tool at your disposal is sllauncher.exe. It would also require the ability to install out-of-browser applications (there is a possibility for an administrator to disable this feature). The function still requires the Silverlight plugin to be installed (and requires Silverlight 4). But again, this post is to merely outline the capabilities and I’ll let you all debate the reasons :-) I know some of you might be thinking Well if it is a managed desktop environment, why not just use WPF then? – and I would pose the same question to the customer as well first. Now I’m not going to write here about the merits of why you might want to do this other than to point out what I believe to be the 2 prominent scenarios: managed desktop deployment and CD/DVD distribution.
#HOW TO GET AROUND MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ON A MAC SOFTWARE#
In some instances where you want to deploy the app via managed desktop software or perhaps via CD-ROM, you don’t want to have to tell the user to start on an HTML page first.
Currently every out-of-browser application (trusted or not) starts from an in-browser mechanism. One of the features we are introducing in Silverlight 4 is a ‘silent install’ mechanism for out-of-browser applications.
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