I have a few .xap files under my clientbin folder. However I am not able to get the silverlight controls working as it seems to get a 404 error - fiddler says so :)
Much appreciate your help
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A:
You will need to add a mapping for .xap to the mime type "application/x-silverlight-app" in your IIS mime map. See:-
http://www.adefwebserver.com/DotNetNukeHELP/Misc/Silverlight/SettingMimeType.html
IIS6 and beyond will serve up a 404 if asked to deliver a file the extension of which it can't find a mime map for. The wild card .* to application/octet-stream is not present on default installs of IIS6 and above.
AnthonyWJones
2010-06-01 14:09:30
This seems to be the answer! But I am not off the hook yet. The MIME type seems to get dropped off after every iisreset!
Indra
2010-06-01 14:28:51
apologies. It seems to stick after a few tries. Thanks a lot.
Indra
2010-06-01 14:47:23
@Indra: Wierd, I've not come across IIS tweaking its own settings like that. I would suggest you ask a question over in http://serverfault.com describing how you change the setting, what it looks like after you made the change and what it looks like after an IISReset.
AnthonyWJones
2010-06-01 15:06:19