How to configure your SharePoint extended IIS Web App for working with Silverlight 2 applications - Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint]

Crikey! There is a lot more to getting the Silverlight Blue Prints for Sharepoint working than I expected.

You need to copy a lot of configuration into the web.config for your SharePoint web application.

Thankfully Patrick detailed what was required and provided a screencast of what needs to be done.

What to copy between the silverlight project web.config and the SharePoint web application web.config;

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<assemblies/>

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<controls/>

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<httpHandlers/>

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<httpModules/>

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<system.webserver/>

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<assemblyBinding/>

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I put System.web.silverlight.dll into the GAC.

The other item is to register the .xap mime type. This seems to already be registered in IIS 7 on Windows 2008.

I could then add the web part.

I went to update the MIME type (IIS7)

Hmm, still not displaying the Hello World in the web part, and IE is crashing....

Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    iexplore.exe
  Application Version:    7.0.6001.18000
  Application Timestamp:    47918f11
  Fault Module Name:    npctrl.dll
  Fault Module Version:    1.0.30226.2
  Fault Module Timestamp:    47c5c57b
  Exception Code:    c0000005
  Exception Offset:    00025670
  OS Version:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.272.7
  Locale ID:    3081
  Additional Information 1:    fd00
  Additional Information 2:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
  Additional Information 3:    fd00
  Additional Information 4:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

At this point I decided to rollback my VM to the previous snapshot and try configuring it again.

I reconfigured the whole thing, but have exactly the same problem. The Silverlight app doesn't display and IE crashes as soon as I try to use it.

I will keep looking and post again when I find an answer.

How to configure your SharePoint extended IIS Web App for working with Silverlight 2 applications - Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint]