Showing posts with label Silverlight Visual Studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silverlight Visual Studio. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Be careful with your directory seperator when using Slverlight

I have observed something weird with the images in Silverlight:

In Visual studio you may specify the path towards an image using slash ("/") or backslash ("\") as separator: both give the correct result.


But if you run the silverlight application only the picture with the slash in the path does appear: the image whose path contains backslashes remains invisible.


May be the engine within visual studio uses Windows service to retrieve files and that service accepts both "/" and "\" as separators while the browser uses the HTTP conventions where the separator is always "/". Anyway for yor Silverlight developments be sure to always use "/" to avoid any problem.