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Open Silverlight web resource from a button in Navigation

I need to a add a button to the navigation or ribbon area of the CRM 2015 on-premise. This button should open an existing Silverlight web resource. Is that possible ?

EDIT:

This MSDN article mentions that the URL holds a value of a URL or an HTML web resource, does that mean that Silverlight webresource is not possible ?

Url
Specifies a URL or HTML Web Resource for a page to display in the main frame of the application when this subarea is selected.

Solution

  • You need to create a page to host the Silverlight control, as specified here:

    To display a Silverlight web resource outside an entity form or chart, create an HTML web resource to be the host page for the Silverlight web resource. Then use the $webresource: directive to open the HTML web resource.

    Once it is created, make sure you reference the page web resource in your site map/ribbon.

    There is a good tutorial here on how to set that up.