Question

I downloaded and installed the Silverlight 3 Tools.

I want to use the Silverlight server control in an ASP.net page, but I don’t have the Silverlight tab in my toolbox.

I also can’t find System.Web.Silverlight.dll to add it myself.

Answer 1

That will be because in silverlight 3 that control has been removed. You need to build the <object ... tag yourself. Here is a simple example:-

<object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%">  
  <param name="source" value="ClientBin/SilverlightApplication1.xap"/>
  <param name="background" value="white" />
  <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40624.0" />
  <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
  <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=3.0.40624.0" style="text-decoration:none">
     <img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108181" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/>
  </a>
</object>

However if you want the standard error handling and automatic reload when SL installed behaviour you will need to add the onError parameter to point at function to handle the errors and include the silverlight.js which is still part of the SL3 install.