Comments on: Reduce your XAP file size in seconds

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By: leovernazza

leovernazza — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:48:11 +0000

Hi, or you can just use the ComponentOne XapOptimizer (it also removes the unused classes and xaml resources from your xap file)

http://demo.ComponentOne.com/Silverlight/XapOptimizer

Regards

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Silverlight Cream for October 31, 2008 -- #415 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:14:34 +0000

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By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:02:20 +0000

Hey Devin,

I wonder if the improvement is better compression or if the RTW version produces smaller files (some debugging code removed etc)…

By: Devin Rose

Devin Rose — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:19:31 +0000

One thing I noticed when Silverlight 2 released was that my xap binary went from 624 KB (built with the beta 2) to about 450 KB with the released version.

Squeezing out another 20% would be cool, too, using this idea!

By: tswcbyy20

tswcbyy20 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:00:39 +0000

Very good

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:41:01 +0000

Hey there,

Naturally I tested this before posting . I don’t RAR the files… I use WinRAR to Zip them (with the “Best” compression setting).

The article you linked to is very good BTW!

By: Justin-Josef Angel

Justin-Josef Angel — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:31:47 +0000

Have you actually tried loading it up in a webpage after you rezipped it?
Rezipping it might save bandwidth, but were you actually manage to serve the XAP file and have Silverlight load it up again?

It takes more than WinRar if memory servers.
David has an excellent post on this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/07/16/smaller-is-better-a-simple-step-to-shrink-the-download-size-of-silverlight-2-applications.aspx

– Justin