How to get the version of my OOB displayed in the control panel?

How to get the version of my OOB displayed in the control panel?

Hello experts,

I have an OOB application of silverlight 4 running on my Windows 7 machine.

After I installed it, I went to the control panel and found out there is no version information of my OOB application displayed.

Is there anyway to display the version of my OOB application in the control panel, or did you miss something?

 

Thank you very much.

Frank

 

Answers & Comments...

Answer: 1

Hi Frank,

You can check the OOB application of Silverlight in Programs and Features in control panel which you can also uninstall it. If it not display the version of your OOB application, there may have problems with your installation, or you didn't specify version in your application project. By the way, you don't need know the version of your OOB cause it can provide built in auto-update support.

More information, Please refer to:

http://www.silverlight.net/learn/overview/out-of-browser-applications/out-of-browser-applications-(silverlight-quickstart) 

http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Outside-the-Browser-Sandboxed.aspx 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd550721(v=vs.95).aspx 

Best Regards,

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Answer: 2

Hello Johnson,

First of all, thank you for your reply and the links you provided.

I am now only interested in knowing how to get the version of my OOB displayed in the control panel. I looked into the three links, and the first link is broken, and the other two don't have the information that I needed.

I have tested using the following two ways to install my application, but none of them displays the version of my OOB in the control panel, and I am pretty sure I have specified the version of my OOB in the application project by entering 2.1.1.1 in both File Version and Assumbly Version in Assumbly Information of my OOB.

1. Install my OOB from the browser by right click on the application in the browser, which brings up the context menu and I select install my application.

2. Install my OOB by executing the sllauncher.exe in the silverlight directory with my OOB passed in as a parameter.

 

Could you please make a very simple silverlight application on your machine, install it as an OOB application, and see if you can see the version of it in the control panel?

 

Again, I appreciate your help.

 

Frank 

 

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Answer: 3

Hi Frank,

Sorry about the delay reply due to the weekend. You are right, I can't see the version in control panel after I do what you did.

Unfortunately, the version of an OOB can't be displayed in control panel so far, but you can programmatically check for updates in code behind.

Best Regards,

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