Brad Abrams, a popular keynote speaker at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in 2007, recently ran into an issue with using Silverlight 2 on a production web server. Basically the Silverlight 2 application worked great on his dev machine, but when hit from the production web server he found "the page has the Silverlight control, but just a white canvas, nothing else." He recently blogged about how to fix it.

The problem, Abrama explained, was that the web server was not set up to handle the .xap file extension that Silverlight 2 uses to encapsulate the code for the application.

Here were the options he came up with for fixing this issue:

.NET in the Browser: Silverlight RIA
- by Lawrence Moroney, Microsoft