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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:35:22+00:00

I want to have two separate interfaces to my website, one that is silverlight,

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I want to have two separate interfaces to my website, one that is silverlight, and one that is normal html for people who don’t have Silverlight, and for search engines. They would have exactly the same content, the Silverlight one would just be a richer experience.

If someone with Silverlight copies the URL to a certain page, it will have a ‘#’ in it (app#page1). If they then want to link to that page on their blog or something, it will have the # in it, and a search engine probably wouldn’t consider it as a separate page from app#page2.

Is there any way to make the navigation from within Silverlight update the URL with a ‘/’ instead of a ‘#’, without actually loading a separate page? This way the URLs in the address bar appear like a normal websites’ URLs (‘app/page1’, ‘app/page2’).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is there any way to make the navigation from within Silverlight update the URL with a ‘/’ instead of a ‘#’, without actually loading a separate page? This way the URLs in the address bar appear like a normal websites’ URLs (‘app/page1’, ‘app/page2’).

    Unfortunately, no. The reason that Silverlight navigation URLs use # is that you can move around within a page by moving to an anchor location. If you used a full URL with ‘/’ separators, it would cause the browser to navigate to a new page, which would reload your Silverlight application. This would basically unload your Silverlight application, and load a new one with the new URL.

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