Improve the Silverlight installation experience)

There is an important question to consider: When you start on your site or applicationProgramWhen using Silverlight, be sure to consider the situation that "if the end user does not install silverslight" and there is a solution. Ideally, you may want to provide users with a seamless Silverlight installation experience, and the end user experience can be perfectly integrated from start to end.

Silverlight "indirect installation" Experience

By default, when your users use Silverlight. when the JS library loads a Silverlight control on a page, the program automatically checks whether the client machine has installed the Silverlight library, the program will automatically insert a screen on your page to prompt you to install the program.

This default installation option is a module called "indirect installation"-because when you click the installation link, A new window is automatically opened to display the Silverlight End User License Agreement and the Microsoft official website download page.

The advantage of the indirect Installation option is that it can run properly on any website (without the need to customize JavaScript scripts ). However, the downloader (your visitor) may terminate the page and navigate to the independent Silverlight download page, and the end user experience after your site is no longer a good overall.

Silverlight "Install directly"

Silverlight also provides an installation wizard that we call the "direct installation" option-through which you can directly integrate the Silverlight installation process into your site to create a more attractive one, better user experience.

When a user who has not installed Silverlight clicks the image to install Silverlight, you can ask your website to provide a download directly (from the official Microsoft website) and immediately start the installation process. After the installation is completed, you can automatically refresh the page and load the Silverlight content to your site (the user will not be directed to other webpages, and you do not need to click or refresh the page to enable it ). It takes less than 20 seconds for a user to connect through broadband, and the end user will feel very simple and coordinated.

Silverlight installation experience White Paper + example

Earlier today, we published a White Paper and set up some sample scripts to demonstrate how to create Silverlight direct installation for your own site. You can download them for free from here. In addition, you can learn more from Tim sneath's blog.

This White Paper and sample script are about how to enable the direct installation experience and how to design the website's HTML interface, so that you can guide end users to click the installation link naturally.

Silverlight books

You can also learn more about creating brilliant multimedia and interactive experiences with Silverlight 1.0 through these newly published books on Silverlight 1.0.

We hope this will help you.

Scott.

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