How do you force Firefox to not cache or re-download a Silverlight XAP file?

Question

When working with Silverlight, I\'ve noticed that Firefox will cache the XAP file, so if I do an update, a user may be stuck using an outdated version. Is there a way to fo

Answer 1

I'm getting this to work by a combination of the suggestions above:

1. Set meta tag cache-control/pragma http-equiv attributes to 'No-Cache'
2. Use an ASP.NET page to host the silverlight control (as opposed to an html page)

3. Set the Source property of the ASP.NET Silverlight control in the code behind, appending a time stamp to the .xap url e.g.

   Silverlight1.Source = "ClientBin/MyApplication.xap?" + DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yy-HH:mm:ss");