Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011

Silverlight 5 goes to desktop application platform

With the new version Silverlight 5 (beta available) the sandbox of an Silverlight app will be nearly destroyed. If you run your Silverlight application in elevated trust mode as out-of-browser application you can access now to the whole local file system and using P/Invoke to call a Win32-Api function. This will give us as developers a total new scope for Silverlight applications. We can now concept Silverlight applications that have native access to local resources like scanners, 3rd party applications and the whole file system – I love this, because the necessity of using WPF nearly disappears.

Pete Brown give us a flavour of new Silverlight applications that uses several operating windows:

Silverlight 5: Working with Operating System Windows - Pete Brown's 10rem.net

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