I have encountered numerous times when a silverlight program is running perfectly, but after a random interval, I will see the silverlight plugin crash message.
It happens on my own projects before which just display a static page with UI for me to test.
Was running on localhost.
Happened at a networked area where my frenz access my iis server to view the page. Was fine the whole morning, but few hours after lunch, it crashed.
I saw it crashed on this site too.
http://www.silverlight.net/learn/quickstarts/animations/
Any1 know what’s the reason for crash, especially when im hosting it on localhost running a static UI page?
This is a very broad topic as there may be numerous reasons the plugin is crashing … sometimes it might not have anything to do with the plugin itself! It could be other plugins, anti-virus software, viruses, etc.
The best way to diagnose the problem is to take the crash dump and debug it. When the browser crashes, it should generate a file. You can learn how to find those files and inspect them here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263
Also take a look at this tutorial:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/debug/windbg_part1.aspx
Finally, if you do find the issue, please share it with us … always good to know what features might cause Silverlight to crash. It has been completely stable on my machine (Win 7 64-bit using both IE 8 and FireFox) with no crashes so I’m curious what might have your machine going through hoops.