Test How Your Website Looks Without Silverlight

So… Your Silverlight application is ready to be published.
You’d probably want to get rid of the default “Get Silverlight” image, to your custom, more appealing image. Instructions here.

Now, in order to test how your page looks without Silverlight, most people would follow the following steps:

• In IE7, go to Tools –> Mange Add-ons –> Enable / Disable Add-ons.
• Select Silverlight and disable.
• Restart your browser and go back to your web page.
• When you’ve finished, enable Silverlight and restart again.

This is quite a fussy process. There must be a better way!

The solution is simple, run Internet Explorer with the following ie7 command line argument: -extoff
This will launch internet explorer with all add-ins disabled, and without affecting any of your settings. You can even run both versions if IE simultaneously!

Try viewing my String Format tool with both versions.

Here is a shortcut you can place on your desktop to run IE without add-ons. To download, right click and save as.