Comments on: Register XAP file extention in IIS

By: Drogna

Drogna — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:25:24 +0000

Finally, a simple and easy to follow tip which works

By: Felipe Alba

Felipe Alba — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:54:56 +0000

Hi, Im having troubles with silverlight, I can’t download the .xap, I have tried everything, the mime types, changing the extension of the .xap file to .zip or .dll, and it doesn work.

Please help

By: Sambo

Sambo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:42:59 +0000

Great point, thank.

By: Tim Anderson’s ITWriting - Tech writing blog » Testing a web service with IIS 7 on Vista

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:00:39 +0000

[...] and handler mappings were not configured for Silverlight and WCF. How to fix the mime type is here and the handler mappings, [...]

By: bill staples

bill staples — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:17:50 +0000

Here are instructions for IIS6 and IIS7, with scripts: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/262/silverlight/

By: Videos En Mi Blog : La Bitácora

Videos En Mi Blog : La Bitácora — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:31:37 +0000

[...] Como agrgar una extensión mime a su servidor web (si es que reciben un error de archivo no encontrado al tratar de descargar el archivo .xap) [...]

By: Decompiling Silverlight 2 Apps – Enter the XAP - .Net World

Decompiling Silverlight 2 Apps – Enter the XAP - .Net World — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:17:30 +0000

[...] blog (inc. screenshots). Note that if your web server is on IIS (prior to version 7) you need to register that MIME type. As an aside, my web server happens to be Apache (shocking I know!) and I had to configure nothing [...]

By: Dmytro Mindra

Dmytro Mindra — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:15 +0000

Thank you for information! Yes, it works on IIS 6. I hope that guys from Microsoft will fix this issue.

By: cschuman

cschuman — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:05:48 +0000

Thanks Felix, updated the typo.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:34:07 +0000

typo: application\x-silverlight-app should be application/x-silverlight-app.