Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

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Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

posted @ Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:50 PM | 8 Comments

The Silverlight Streaming service has been upgraded to support Silverlight 2 beta 2 applications.

As a note to customers who were previously hosting Beta 1 applications for test purposes, as beta 1 is no longer a supported test platform for SLS. Authors should update/upload their applications using the latest Silverlight 2 bits. These are available (with the tools) from the Silverlight community site.

Silverlight 1 applications hosted on SLS are not affected by this upgrade and still supported of course.

Remember that you can also now directly upload a XAP file to SLS using the Manage Applications functionality and then it will dynamically create a manifest file for you – so you don’t have to even worry about packaging up things in some scenarios!

tags: silverlight, silverlight streaming, xap

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Comments

Tanmoy

6/24/2008 10:10 PM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

Great :)
Jacek Ciereszko

6/25/2008 12:15 AM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

good :)
unruledboy

6/26/2008 3:34 AM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

hi,
one problem: it seems(quite confident:D ) that SL does NOT backward- compatible. even when installed the newest version, view a page with an old version sl in it, require you to uninstall the newer version and install the older one. and since more and more sl pages out there, versions varied, I had to keep changing the version, which is really tired. any idea?
timheuer

6/26/2008 8:56 AM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

@unruledboy: SL is not backward compat with SL 2 Beta 1 -- that is correct. If you are viewing a Silverlight 1.0 site and finding issues, please report them to me.
yoyi1954

8/16/2009 12:32 AM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

Hello Tim,
I'm using SL 3. My application consist of 2 xap files (I'm playing with a loaderApp and splash screens).
How can I upload these 2 xap files to the SL Streaming Service? (when browsing to select my xap files, it did not allow me to select the xap multiple files that I have). Please, can anybody help? Thanks a lot! GeorgeL
timheuer

8/16/2009 7:56 AM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

yoyi - the splash screens can only be a XAML file, not a XAP. But for SLS you should put both XAPs in your package and indicate that one of them is an additional content file in your manifest. I haven't tried this but it should work.
yoyi1954

8/18/2009 9:56 PM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

Tim, yes, the splash is a xaml file, but this xaml file and others get compiled into a dll and this dll becomes part of one of the xap files; please correct me if I'm missing something fundamental. (My other xap is content)
And, could you please elaborate a bit more on "put both XAPs in your package"???; becasue Windows Live Streaming Service allows me to upload just one xap per application. How do I make up "a single package which needs to be made up of 2 xap files?! and 2 manifests inside each.)....if that is what you meant...which I doubt.... Thanks again!
timheuer

8/18/2009 10:01 PM | # re: Silverlight Streaming upgraded to Beta 2

yoyi - Splash Screens can *only* be XAML, not XAPs if you are using the SplashScreenSource parameter. What I mean in SLS is that all it requires is a manifest to define the contents and the starting app. You can still put additional files in there that you need (i.e., content, etc) -- a XAP can be one of those additional files.