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silverlightinternet-explorer-9
daftspaniel
daftspaniel

Reputation: 955

IE9 Rendering Blank when Page contains a Silverlightcontrol

We have an issue with IE9 rendering a blank page. This has been tested on multiple machines in live and development mode.

The page is a mix of items AJAX controls but the element causing the issue appears to be the Silverlight(4) control (disable that and everything works fine). Resize the browser window and the page is shown correctly.

This also happens on other pages on the site using Silverlight.

One suggestion was to use windowless=false.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2711

Answers (3)

daftspaniel
daftspaniel

Reputation: 955

The answer to this issue was to add an additional 'dummy' Silverlight control to the page. It then rendered correctly. I have no idea why this fixed the problem but it did.

Thanks for all suggestions.

Upvotes: 0

Lee Englestone
Lee Englestone

Reputation: 4667

Always Always try installing latest all possible Windows updates. This solved a very similar issue for me recently. -- Lee

Upvotes: 0

SteveJ
SteveJ

Reputation: 11

I found a possible fix for this. I realize this is an old post but I struggled with this problem forever.

If the silverlight control has 'windowless mode turned on

It will just show a blank page in IE9. In windows 7, if you minimise the IE9 and then hover over the icon on the task bar, you can see the page as it should render in the little preview box.

It must be a problem with certain graphics accelerators\drivers and IE9. If you go to the advanced options on Internet Explorer and check the box for 'Use Software Rendering instead of GPU rendering', there is a good chance that the page will display correctly.

So, either remove the windowless parameter from the silverlight app OR Use Software Rendering instead of GPU rendering

Upvotes: 1

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