Deployed Lightswitch Blank Screen

Question

I've installed the trial and built a simple LightSwitch application that uses a DB located on the network. I've now deployed the application to my network webserver remotely without error (desktop application with IIS Hosted Server). However navigating to the correct address in brower to attempt to download the LightSwitch application only displays a completely blank screen. I can rightclick on the screen and the 'Silverlight' context box appears, so I guess Silverlight is running correctly, but nothing is being displayed and there are no errors.

Any help in this matter would be great as LightSwitch seems to be exactly perfect for what I need.

Answer 1

Hi

I am not sure about your exact error. Kindly go through the below threads, where similar issue solved.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/thread/4c6eb778-e34e-4957-9496-647e97891d0c

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/thread/4a7133ef-a2b3-4ff0-bbe4-0b2dee0b3e67

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/thread/044cff1d-1a80-4750-b342-329deca1a87a

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/thread/0a193672-f6bc-4f4a-b9ec-ec8a58c43927/

Hope this helps...

Regards

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Rashmi Ranjan Panigrahi

Answer 2

Hi,

I had the same blank screen. I forgot to install some things with the web installer.

This blog bost is very helpful for deploying to an IIS Server:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/03/23/deployment-guide-how-to-configure-a-web-server-to-host-lightswitch-applications.aspx

Answer 3

I'm not sure what I did to my project but it just didn't want to deploy and run correctly. I ended up starting a new basic project and deploying it and it ran fine.

Answer 4

Hi,

I had the same blank screen. I forgot to install some things with the web installer.

This blog bost is very helpful for deploying to an IIS Server:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/03/23/deployment-guide-how-to-configure-a-web-server-to-host-lightswitch-applications.aspx

What things did you forget to install? I've tried every blog, forum post, article and I still get a blank screen! :(

Answer 5

Hi ...

To diagnose this type of issue, I typically copy the SilverLight XAP file, renaming the extension to .ZIP then I look at the manifest and XML files and ensure that all required assemblies and versions are in the zip/xap file.  Have you done this yet?

Cheers

Answer 6

I had the same problem with some of my user's computers.

I got the app to work on their machines after adjusting the browser compatibility settings. Surprisingly these settings have an effect on Silverlight's out-of-browser (OOB) apps as well.