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by
kirupa | 16 April 2008
In the
previous page,
you learned how to create a new Silverlight project
and link a Web site to its output. In this page,
let's look at the other case where you already have
a Silverlight project created but don't have a
Web site associated with it.
You may be wondering how you could get into a
situation where you have a Silverlight project but
no Web site project. It's actually quite common.
Currently, in the beta version of Blend 2.5, if you
happen to create a new Silverlight project, you
create just a Silverlight project. You don't get the
option of having a Web site created as well.
Fortunately, the fix
for this is quite simple. Open your Silverlight
project in Visual Studio. Look in your Solution
Explorer where you only see your single Silverlight
project:
[ the Solution Explorer is your friend ]
Right click on your
Solution and go to Add | New Web Site:
[ you can easily add a new Web site project to an
existing solution ]
The Add New Web Site
window will appear. You will see several
preconfigured Web site templates for you to pick
from. Let's keep it simple and just go with the
Empty Web Site:
[ select the Empty Web Site template ]
Once you select your
Empty Web Site template and hit OK. Your Add New Web
Site window will close, and you will see your Web
site project appear in your Solution Explorer. Since
it is after all an empty Web site, you won't see
much.
Anyway, right click on
your web site project in the Solution Explorer, and
from the menu that appears, select the
Start Options
item:
[ to associate your Silverlight app during startup
with your web site, go to Start Options ]
A properties window
will appear. From this window, click on the
Silverlight Applications menu item:
[ select the Silverlight Applications tab ]
Once you have clicked
on Silverlight Applications, you will probably a lot
of empty space on the right-half of this window. At
the bottom, though, you will see three buttons of
which only one is enabled - Add. Click on this Add
button:
[
Add a new Silverlight Application reference ]
Once you have clicked
on Add, you will see the Add Silverlight Application
dialog appear:
[
create a new SL project or link to an existing SL
project form this page ]
From this window, you
can either select an existing Silverlight
Application (which is what you would probably want
to do), or you can create a Silverlight project and
have it be linked to your web site instead.
In either case, now, you are at
exactly where we were in the previous page where
your solution now contains both a Silverlight
project as well as a Web Site project that listens
to the output produced by your Silverlight project. Yay!
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