Since I use my WynApse.com website as a portal of sorts to everything I do on the web, when it's not working correctly, I notice pretty fast.
I opened it this morning, and noticed my Silverlight Logo wasn't spinning... well, not *just* not spinning... the underlying copyrighted Silverlight logo was showing... and the text in the caption wasn't working, so that means my MasterPage canvases weren't working. I opened one of the articles and found no canvas, and about then I got a dialog box telling me that I needed to get an update from some link. Maybe it's how I have my site setup, but it didn't give me the link as a link... just as text.
I opened Maxthon so I could keeep the dialog box on-screen and typed in the url, and it navigated me automatically to the download page, but didn't show anything new. So I opened Scott Guthrie's blog, Tim Sneath, Joe Stegman, Mike Harsh, Somasegar, I ratted around in the Forums, and nobody was talking about an update... yet nothing's working... grrr :(
Finally, after going back to the download site, it popped up and said "Hey... there's a new version, ya want it?" ... (or something like that... at least that's how I read it) ... I took the update, saved it to my HD, then ran it. Since much more happened after that I don't remember any of that being a problem.
So I figured the SDK had changed, and I'd need to upload new js, so I downloaded the SDK, and it had a date on it of October 17th, so I figured that was it. I downloaded it as well then tried to run it. Oops... gotta uninstall the previous. Did that, then started this very long sequence of trying to get that sucker to install.
I've been doing this since WPF/E, and I like to keep my development separated on substituted drive letters... makes it easier to find things, plus I'm a hold-over from the DOS days, so I have all my Silverlight sitting on drive X: It's not S: for Silverlight because it was started with WPF/E and W: was already being used :)
It did not want to install to anything X:, but instead of telling me that, it kept saying the install folder had too long a name. I finally woke up enough and realized just maybe I should be trying to install to the real HD instead of the substituted drive, and then it worked fine... whew...
So, that gave me the Silverlight.js file... I uploaded it to my site, put it on drive X: where all my test code expects it, then started looking at my site closer...
On the MasterPage, the logo was not spinning, but now I could at least see the first frame of it. All the article code, tutorials, and tooltips all were fine except for the two that have video. I tried running the one page with video locally and nothing worked there either... just a black spot where it was supposed to be. Restarting the browser didn't help.
I finished all the rest of the pages to make sure nothing else was a problem, and it was just video. I ran Maxthon again and did Tools->Clean all and tried it, and didn't change. I ran ATF Cleaner and cleaned everything but the Prefetch, and that didn't help. I ran MRUBlaster, and that didn't help .... sigh...
So I posted a message to the forum, and while I was posting it hit me that maybe I should reboot. Since I was already running myself late, what the heck... I started a reboot while I got ready for work, and just before walking out the door, I verified that video was now working...
So now I'm at work, and I haven't received any notification of an update, and nobody's mentioned anything on the forum ... so I'm confused! ... but I've got two Excedrin on-board now and some Stored Procs in Oracle to debug, so maybe later it'll want to be updated :)
Just thought I'd pass along the whole adventure in case anyone else is getting pinged about this today. I just checked and I don't see anyone talking about a refresh for today. So, just remember...
- If all else fails, reboot the browser
- If that fails, reboot the box
- We do this because it's fun :)
Stay in the 'Light!
posted @ Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:14 AM