Silverlight Hosting in WCE 5.0
Igor Kondrasovas
Hello,
Recently I read this great post from Mike Hall, about hosting silverlight in
windows embedded 6.0:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2009/05/15/hosting-silverlight-2-0-web-applications-on-windows-ce-6-0.aspx
I have a Windows CE 5.0 based device and I would like to do the same. Do you
think I will face problem doing that?
There is no easy way to upgrade the windows version, so if this doesn not
work, I will have to find another approach (what would be very frustating,
when you compare the potentials)...
What do you think?
Regards,
Igor.
Ginny Caughey
Although Silverlight was demoed at conferences last year running on WM
(based on CE 5) devices, it is not currently supported.
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Igor Kondrasovas
Hello Ginny,
Do you mean that silverlight is not currently supported in all CE Versions?
If yes, my question remains, since the refered article describes silverlight
hosting a matter of hosing xbap files on a web server. There is not other
necessary component different from what is necessary to host simple html
pages, write?
I´m not sure if this is a matter of supporting it or not.
What do you think?
Regards,
Igor
Ginny Caughey
I don't think Silverlight will work on CE 5 devices.
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Bruce Eitman [eMVP]
When I first read the question I agreed with you. But then I read it again,
and Mike Hall's blog page.
It **might** be possible to host Silverlight with Windows CE 5.0 - that is
an HTTP server serving up Silverlight files to a browser. In less time than
this series of questions and answers, the OP could try it and find out.
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Ginny Caughey
Hi Bruce,
Yes you're right - and also that the OP could just try it.
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Valter Minute [eMVP]
> Hello Ginny,
>
> Do you mean that silverlight is not currently supported in all CE Versions?
>
> If yes, my question remains, since the refered article describes silverlight
> hosting a matter of hosing xbap files on a web server. There is not other
> necessary component different from what is necessary to host simple html
> pages, write?
>
> I´m not sure if this is a matter of supporting it or not.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
>
You are right about the hosting part.
"hosting" a Silverlight application means simply store and make
accessible some files on your web server and the CE web server can do
that since version 3.0 of the operating system.
That could be a good solution for a remote UI, for example.
You will not be able to run that Silverlight application on the device
(opening that files using the CE web browser and using it as your local
UI) and I suppose that this is what Ginny means.
Now you can also use an embedded-specific version of Silverlight called
Silverlight for Windows Embedded but it's not compatibile to the
.NET-based version of Silverlight used on the PC.
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