Can I use Silverlight 2.0 with ASP.NET 2.0?

Question

I am working on an in-house tool for interfacing to a database. My current prototyping is written in C# using ASP.NET 2.0 with the intent to optimise some client-side operations using javascript.

However, I was hoping to leverage Silverlight to simplify the user interface development. Do I need to have the server upgraded to ASP.NET 3.5 for this or can I create the necessary web services in ASP.NET 2.0 for integrating with the client-side Silverlight controls?

Answer 1

From the servers perspective it is only serving up a file with a XAP extension. So the Silverlight application itself isn't a problem.

Where do you do need to take care is on the web page hosting the Silverlight application. This can be a simple HTML page using an object tag or JavaScript you are fine. However you can also use the ASP.NET asp:Silverlight server side control and in that case you will need to make sure the System.Web.Silverlight.dll is deployed with your application and this does have a 3.5 dependency by using System.Web.Extensions.

So if you want to be independent of the server environment you best is to avoid the asp:Silverlight control.

Another thing that might be needed on the server is setting up the XAP MIME type to application/x-silverlight-app.

Answer 2

yes Sivler light can be used with asp.net 2.0 and can be also be deployed to other platforms such as PHP