Recently, I needed a place to store a compiled Silverlight assembly in a highly available environment. Ideally, the location needed to be free or on some web site that I owned. Since I’ve been getting comfortable with App Engine lately, I figured I would try setting up app-engine to host my file. The one thing that you need to do when return a Silverlight XAP file is make sure that it comes back with the MIME type set to application/x-silverlight-app. It turns out that this is pretty simple. I just added this to my app.yaml file:
handlers:
- url: /SilverlightApp.xap
static_files: SilverlightApp.xap
upload: SilverlightApp.xap
mime_type: application/x-silverlight-app
With this, I have App Engine reliably serving up my page with Silverlight embedded.
Karmic Code Monkey 