The HTML Test Page
The last ingredient in the deployment picture is the HTML test page. This page is the entry point into your Silverlight content—in other words, the page the user requests in the web browser. Visual Studio names this file to match your project name (like SilverlightApplication1TestPage.html), but you'll probably want to rename it to something more appropriate.
The HTML test page doesn't actually contain Silverlight markup or code. Instead, it simply sets up the content region for the Silverlight plug-in, using a small amount of JavaScript. (For this reason, browsers that have JavaScript disabled won't be able to see Silverlight content.) Here's a slightly shortened version of the HTML test page that preserves the key details: ...
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