A taste of development

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We recently launched our video tutorial site for Expression Web Designer. Dustin, our resident graphic artist is pumping out the video tutorials as well as designing the site using the tool. It’s good to have some how to vids from a designers point of view. Watch this site throughout 2007 as he continues to expand the content.

http://weblogs.asp.net/dfindley/archive/2007/02/02/learnexpression-com-is-live.aspx

Ted Haeger , aka ReverendTed  of Bungee Labs  (purveyors of the most kill-killski development toolkit for Web 2.0 developers, in the world), just published a thought provoking blog post asking his readers: Can we…?

Trust Microsoft with Claimspace

Ted has personally challenged me to respond and I plan to do so, in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I encourage you to check out Ted’s post and weigh in with your thoughts and opinions, either here or there.

http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2007/05/23/trust-microsoft-with-claimspace-my-response-pending.aspx

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I recently ran into an issue with using Silverlight 2 on a production web server.   Basically the Silverlight 2 application worked great on my dev machine, but when hit from the production web server I found the page has the Silverlight control, but just a white canvas, nothing else.

The problem was that the web server was not set up to handle the.xap file extension that Silverlight 2 uses to encapsulate the code for the application. 

A few options for fixing this issue:

1. For IIS6, simply add the.XAP filetype.

2. For II7, this should just work as IIS7 enables them all by default.

3. Other web services such as Apache, lighttpd, etc.  Just make sure the server is configured to allow access to.xaml,.wmv and.xap files and you should be all set

4.  Sometimes you can’t easily go in and change the setting on the server.   So the solution I actually used was none of these.  I just renamed the.XAP file to.ZIP, changed the reference in my applications.Xaml file and it ran fine! 

 

Hope that helps!

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/14/using-silverlight-2-on-a-production-web-server.aspx