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  RobHoz

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  reducing xap size

  Jul 28, 2008 02:41 PM | LINK

  Hi All,

  Can someone please spear some tips for reducing the .xap file size?

  Thank you,
  Robert

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  johnnystock

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Jul 28, 2008 02:47 PM | LINK

  Sure, this list is not all inclusive but here are a few things to try:

  • Don't include images in the xap, download them at runtime
  • Don't reference any dlls that you don't specifically need
  • re-zip the xap after the build as described in this post

  hopefully this gets you started

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  RobHoz

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Jul 28, 2008 03:03 PM | LINK

  Thank i'll try it! 

  by not including images in the xap you meen using them as a resource or using a absolute path?

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Jul 28, 2008 03:06 PM | LINK

  I mean using an absolute path.  Let the web server host the images, that's one thing the server is good at :).

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  kunal2383

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Jul 29, 2008 08:53 AM | LINK

  If you want to include your images in the xap, then, u can reduce the xap size by splitting the xap into multiple xap.
  After that, you can download the content from those xap's on demand.

  For reference:   http://silverlight.net/forums/p/18819/63937.aspx#63937

   

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Jul 29, 2008 09:09 AM | LINK

   You might like to check out some articles and videos about loading content on demand:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189021(VS.95).aspx

  videos:
  

  DYNAMICALLY LOADING ASSEMBLIES/CODE

  ACCESSING RESOURCES FROM XAP/DLL/SITE 

  LOADING MEDIA AT RUNTIME 

  LOADING DYNAMIC XAPS AND ASSEMBLIES 

   

  hope this helps :)
  

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  RobHoz

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Jul 29, 2008 10:56 AM | LINK

  Thank you for the videos!

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  texmex5

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Aug 01, 2008 06:28 AM | LINK

  I stumbled upon a blog post about reducing .xap size and thought that I would share:

  http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/07/16/smaller-is-better-a-simple-step-to-shrink-the-download-size-of-silverlight-2-applications.aspx
  

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  Re: reducing xap size

  Aug 08, 2009 11:05 PM | LINK

  I would just use ComponentOne XapOptimizer instead.

  http://demo.componentone.com/silverlight/xapoptimizer/
  (free version here)
  
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  Re: reducing xap size

  Aug 09, 2009 07:23 PM | LINK

  You can also use the shared assembly feature (assembly caching) of SL3 if you've got more that one SL application to download to the client.