I am developing a sidebar gadget for windows 7 using Silverlight in an enterprise

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Asked: May 25, 20262026-05-25T05:56:53+00:00 2026-05-25T05:56:53+00:00

I am developing a sidebar gadget for windows 7 using Silverlight in an enterprise company (70K+ employees).

All of our windows 7 client builds are x64, hence all the sidebar processes are running as x64.

Even though I know that there is an option switching to a 32 bit version,

I cannot allow this to myself – people will have to execute registry files, or a GPO will have to be applied, etc…

I have been desperately waiting for Silverlight 5th version since it’s supposed to have a 64 bit runtime.

Now, when sidebar starts the gadget, it says that I am missing Silverlight 5 runtime, suggesting to download it from here:

There is a link on this page that leads me back to:

Where I have already downloaded the beta tools and runtime for Silverlight 5!

So what’s the problem? What am I missing here? Is there a x64 bit support or no ?

Any thoughts will be appreciated.

By the way – if I switch to a 32 bit sidebar version on PC – all works fine…

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-25T05:56:54+00:00

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UPDATE: Silverlight 5 RC version just released, with 64 bit support
http://10rem.net/blog/2011/09/01/silverlight-5-rc-now-available

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