Silverlight tutorial: HOW TO Set or change Silverlight startup page or class?

I’ve been struggling for a while with this problem. I had Silverlight project with number of pages that I have designed and later I decided that I want to change to some other page to be the startup page when my projects starts. Solution is quite simple and neat so I wanted to share it with you.

In WPF – it is very simple – especially if you are using Expression Blend 2. You can just right – click on the desired Window or Page in Project tree and from the drop down menu click on “Startup”.

Unfortunately this just won’t work with Silverlight 2 projects – does not matter if you decide to use Blend or Visual Studio. So – to make it work you need to dig into some coding, if I can even dare to call it coding.

Open your Silverlight 2 project in Visual Studio 2008 or Expression Blend 3 (we will need ability to edit some code). Locate the App.xaml file and its code-behind file called App.xaml.cs.

Open the App.xaml.cs file and locate the lines:

private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)

        {

            // Load the main control

            this.RootVisual = new PutYourPageClassNameHere();

        }

Replace the PutYourPageClassNameHere with your actual Class name and after you hit F5 again that page / class will be the first one to start.

Pretty simple, isn’t it? Now I just hope that Silverlight guys will make push to get this exposed like it is the case with WPF projects now.

6 Responses to “ Silverlight tutorial: HOW TO Set or change Silverlight startup page or class? ”

1. Vipul Soni says:

   December 16, 2010 at 10:11

   Thanks! very cool and direct post…

   Reply
2. Desika says:

   March 1, 2011 at 6:08

   It worked! thanks a lot!

   Reply

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