[How To] Find Current Version of Silverlight and Install Latest Version
Written By Sam on 20 June 2010
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Silverlight is a powerful development platform from Microsoft which helps you in creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the Web, Desktop and Mobile Devices. Recently Microsoft released Silverlight 4 which has got some nice features like IIS Smooth Streaming, SketchFlow, Deep Zoom, Pivot, Perspective 3D Graphics, Media Format Extensibility, Skinning and Styling.
Procedure To Find Current Version of Silverlight and Install Latest Version
- Just visit – http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/
- The web page displays the installed version of Silverlight on your system along with the current available version.
- Now click the latest version that is shown on the web page to install it on your computer.
fyi if you need some sample code for detecting the silverlight version installed in the hosting browser, you can take a look at silverlightversion.com – view the source, it has javascript that does this.
Use this link http://www.abyty.com/browser/ for get alternative solution to get silverlight and flash application on any iDevices. It little bit ugly and not have sound, but working in basic.