Hey, who took my Chiron?

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Hey, who took my Chiron?

posted @ Friday, October 10, 2008 1:56 PM | 12 Comments

If you’ve been playing around with Silverlight 2 for a bit now, you may have heard about/used the tool chiron.exe. It was a tool in the SDK that shipped in Beta 2 that was responsible (for among other things) at that time for packaging the XAP.

Fast forward to release builds for Silverlight 2. No Chiron. Hey, what’s up?

Chiron is still available for you if you want it. It is a part of the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK which is available on Codeplex. So if you need/want it, there you go. Some people were using Chiron for their automated build scenarios to create the XAP package during the builds. A lot of the packaging stuff for XAPs is now a part of some of the MSBuild tasks, so you can still automate your builds using MSBuild.

tags: silverlight, chiron, xaml, msbuild, nant, sdlsdk, dlr

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Silverlight Travel

10/11/2008 3:39 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

Why ist Chiron in the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK ?
Is this the right place for it?
timheuer

10/11/2008 9:16 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

Silverlight Travel: Chiron was actually a tool that originated from the DLR team...it is what they use to host xap-less Silverlight 2 applications in the DLR for the development environment.
Rachida Dukes

10/13/2008 1:59 PM | # web service update

I watched all your videos tutorials, I love them. I'm trying to learn how to use web service with silverlight, but your video is using the old version of silverlight
silverlight.net/learn/learnvideo.aspx?video=47177
and I'm using silverlight version RC0. Are you planning to upgrade your tutorial to work with version 2.0?
Thanks for the good work.
Rachida Dukes
timheuer

10/13/2008 2:15 PM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

Rachida: yes we will be updating the code, but not the videos. It shouldn't require much work if you want to email me offline and I can tell you what you need to do if you tell me which video.
KKI

10/13/2008 6:34 PM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

Hi, Tim
I have a question.
Because Microsoft had not contained assemblies for Managed JScript in Silverlight SDK, the sdlsdk project site in Codeplex becomes only release site of it.
But Managed JScript is not open source.
Has CodePlex permitted the release of Managed JScript?
Although I don't want to remove it from CodePlex, I am worried about this situation...
unruledboy

10/14/2008 1:05 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

does Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview support silverlight 2.0 RTM?

when I install sl 2.0 rtm sdk, it forces me to uninstall the blend 2.5 first.
unruledboy

10/14/2008 1:10 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

ok, I got it, I have to install the new blend 2.0 sp1
unruledboy

10/14/2008 1:21 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

the blendv2sp1 is only for blend2.0, then what happened to Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview ?
unruledboy

10/14/2008 1:41 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

after installing the new sl2 sdk, open my projects created with sl2 beta 2, it told me it could not compile, missing value for "compilexaml" parameter etc.

then I try to create a new project, it could not be created.

then after uninstalling the sl tools b2 for vs 2008, old projects could not be opened.

where is sl tools 2(rtm), is it included with sl2 sdk? if so, the installer why not ask me to uninstall the sl2 tools beta 2?
unruledboy

10/14/2008 1:49 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

ok, I repaired the sl2 sdk, not work, I reinstall it, not work, uninstalled and install again, not work.

there is no sl projects in vs2008.

what shall I do?
unruledboy

10/14/2008 1:58 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

ok , I need to Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (RC1) ?
Josh Comley

2/26/2009 5:09 AM | # re: Hey, who took my Chiron?

Hey there,

You mention you can automate building with MSBuild. I can do this by running MSBuild from the command line, but calling it from code does not work.

What I have tried is fully explained in my post here:
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/75632/179668.aspx

I can call Process.Start(...) for MSBuild on my project file and all is OK, but using the Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine in C# just doesn't seem to work.

Do you have any pointers? I would sincerely appreciate any help you have to offer!