Deploying the Application to the Server

Depending on the nature of your Silverlight application, it might simply involve a client component (the Silverlight application itself), or it could include both server and client components (both a Silverlight application running on the client, and services running on the server). Both the server and the client components are deployed to the server, and it's the server that then deploys the client components to the clients.

To deploy a Silverlight application to the server, you actually deploy the Web project, as it contains both the server and the client components. The process is essentially identical to deploying a traditional ASP.NET web application/web site to a server.

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