Just SL 4.0 not enuf for samples website

Question

dear Readers,
 
Our desktop software gets pushed by SMS by our IT Support dept.    I have silverllight 4.0.50524.0 - already on my machine and other users' machines.  I do not have .NET framework 4.0 on the machine yet.   I have visual studio versions 2005 and 2008 installed on my machine, but not visual studio 2010.  i have all these by i am a developer.
 
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm - inspite of that, this page wants me to install some silverlight 'something'.
 
which of those installs are needed for this page to work:
http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/ - there are a few packages listed below:
 
i am not talking development here/  i want to use this page to show my end users to identify the style of end product they want.  pl. let me know how to move forward.  my end users will not have the access to the visual studio software.
 
regards
Ravi/

ArtUllman · Answer

dear Readers,

Our desktop software gets pushed by SMS by our IT Support dept.    I have silverllight 4.0.50524.0 - already on my machine and other users' machines.  I do not have .NET framework 4.0 on the machine yet.   I have visual studio versions 2005 and 2008 installed on my machine, but not visual studio 2010.  i have all these by i am a developer.

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm - inspite of that, this page wants me to install some silverlight 'something'.

which of those installs are needed for this page to work:
http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/ - there are a few packages listed below:

i am not talking development here/  i want to use this page to show my end users to identify the style of end product they want.  pl. let me know how to move forward.  my end users will not have the access to the visual studio software.

regards
Ravi/

Here is what I figured out.  If a silverlight xap is built using a new version of the developer tools (even a minor revision upgrade as in the case here), then you need to have a new version of the plugin.  The silverlight run time checks versions at run time and won't let you run code compiled with a newer version.  I found a posting with a link to an older version of the silverlight4_tools, and was able to de-install, re-install and then publish a xap file that would run in Silverlight 4.0.50524.0.  Changing the minRuntimeVersion in the ASP lets the ASP run the code, but the runtime itself kicks out an error.  The only way to make the ESRI sample site compatible with this old version (4.0.50524.0) would be to rebuild the xap with this older version of the tools (which is probably not worth the hassle).  Here is the link with the older version of the tools in case anyone else needs to build for this older version.

http://spazzarama.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/where-to-download-toolssdkdeveloper-runtime-for-silverlight-4-0-50524-0/

Ravichandran_M_Kaushika · Answer

Mr Rex,
 
good morning.    My supervisor downloaded and installed the latest version of Silverlight v 4.0.6* onto a different server without .NET framework 4.x and IE on that server display sample SL website contents without any difficutly.
 
So based on our findings - somewhere some tag or something remembers v 4.0.6* on the sample website.
 
thanks once again for your help.
 
regards
Ravi.

Ravichandran_M_Kaushika · Answer

Mr. Rex,
 
good morning.  thank you for your posting.  I tried visiting the above mentioned site.  i see the silverlight circle of dots starting up - with 0% and i get a siliverlight update request message - different from the one i (SL v4.0.50524.0) and some of my colleagues (SL 3.0.x) have been getting to perform an update - this time (this morning more like a traditional VB message box with 'Yes' 'No' option. "Microsoft Silverlight Update" (header), "This page requires a more recent version of Silverlight. Would you like to install the latest version from the Silverlight Web site?" message.  
 
Last week, my colleagues (v 3.0.x) and I (v 4.0.50524.0) were getting a larger IE install SL on your workstaion window on the top left corner of the explorer window (a message that would appeasr for a machine that has SL release older by at least 1 previous release or no SL install at all).  Over the weekend, many other staff members got the SMS push to have SL v 4.0.50524 and they are all get the VB style update message.
 
In summary, we are still not able to view the sample website pages at all.
 
On a side note, we do not have .Net Framework 4.0 at all on our USDA configured workstations - technically, I feel that there should not a dependency/requirement for our client browsers strangely looking to run some .NET framework 4.x assemblies.  I could be wrong.  Please let me know your thougths.
 
thank you for your personal attention in this matter.
 
regards
Ravi.