Forcing browsers to reload Silverlight xap after an update

Question

I have a Silverlight control packaged up and deployed to a SharePoint web part. I\'m having trouble with the browser loading new versions of the control after I push an upd

Answer 1

This has to do with how your browser handles resource requests. Flash has similar issues and there are a couple workarounds.

Here's an article that details the issue and possible solutions.

I would suggest doing something like this:

Say you have this for your xap in your html:

I would version it so whenever you do a push you change the version number. Example: