MIME Types required for Silverlight Output

 Article #: OUTS1001M  Product: Mimic   Version: 2.0

Summary:

Silverlight output does not work when viewed from a web server

Full Description:

By default, most servers today do not have the appropriate MIME type set for Silverlight. MIME types must be set by the server administrator for Silverlight output to be served to appropriately to end users.

Solution:

Tip: These steps maybe different for various web servers. Contact your web admin for your specific web server. The following steps are for an IIS server. However, the information for the .xaml MIME type is the same regardless of web server.

  1. Open IIS
  2. Open the properties of the server
  3. Find and Open up the MIME types (on most servers this is a button label “MIME types” or “File types” under a MIME section)
  4. Click the “New” button
  5. A dialog looking like the one below should show up.
  6. In the Extension field type “.xaml” (no quotes)
  7. In the MIME Type field type “application/xaml+xml” (no quotes)
  8. Reboot IIS

Attribution:

Last updated:

June 24, 2008

Author:

Richard Ferrell

Contributions by:

Jay Wulkowicz, Neal Pozner