Recently while working with a Silverlight Application, I realized the Silverlight App wasn’t downloading or not even showing the “Loading %” message when I navigated to that page. At first I thought the xap file was too big and hence taking a lot of time.

But it struck me later, it loads quickly if I have my mouse at the place where the SL control was going to load!!

That gave me some hope and I googled for it. And there, someone was out there who had the same issue.

Thanks to this article I resolved my issue. It stats that Silverlight had a display problem when the control is placed in a html table. I also had the issue of SL Control not rendering if you don’t increase the height and width of TR and TD elements which held the SL Control. Which is explained here.

Happy Coding!!