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A general term describing applications which use client side web-standard technologies to create a desktop application. Synonyms include [tag:RIA].

A general term describing applications which use client side web-standard technologies to create a desktop application. Synonyms include .

Typically, these applications use technologies normally employed within websites, such as HTML and JavaScript. They could be used via a browser instance, but due to requirements (desire, design, offline access, etc.) are developed so that they can be used without the need of the browser. They typically offer better cross-platform support than typical desktop development environments.

Examples of web technologies used outside of a browser include Microsoft's Silverlight and Compiled HTML Help, Adobe Air, and JavaFX.

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Download a zip folder from a remote server and unzip folder from a silverlight application

How can i download a zipped folder from a remote server and unzip the entire files in the folder and store them in isolated storage space from a silver light 3 or 4 out of browser application. Any suggestion please
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Multiple Out-of-Browser Applications in One Application

I'm looking at a scenario where I need to create a single "master" Silverlight application and then add "child" applications for an out-of-browser Silverlight application. The scenario is something like this. A user will visit a gameboard web site …
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Unable to install OOB SL5 programmatically

I'm trying to install a brand new Silverlight 5 Application using sllauncher.exe. When I do this with an older SL4 application, this works fine, however, something about this new SL5 application is different and causing the sllauncher to fail…
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Silverlight app disabled when out of browser

I have a silverlight 5 app that runs fine in browser but as soon as I run it out of browser it does a number of things on start-up (like login screen etc) but then it gets grayed out (as if the background rectangle of a child window has not closed)…
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Silverlight OOB icons not appearing on the Windows 8 desktops

I have a Silverlight 5 Project compiled in the VS2012. I've set all png icons for the out-of-browser properly. If I test the Installation in the e.g. Windows XP I see all these icons everywhere (on the desktop, in the start menu, taskbar,…
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Silverlight out of browser icons displaying inconsistently

I'm getting some strange behaviour with the out of browser icons in a Silverlight 3 app. All four sizes are defined in the AppManifest.xml and each icon has the build action set to "Content". However, I'm only seeing the icon display on the very…
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Drag-and-Drop out of Silverlight 5 application

Is it possible to drag items (e.g. images) out of a Silverlight 5 application and drop it to another target (on desktop)? Any ideas if and how this is working? I guess this would be only possbile running the application out-of-browser with elevated…
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Silverlight Notification API in-browser

I'd like to use the Notification API to create toast notifications for a Silverlight app designed to run both in and out of the browser, but the NotificationWindow class is only available OOB. Does there exist anything that can replicate the…
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How to install a Silverlight OutOfBrowser Application with shortcuts created for all users

I've a Silverlight Out of Browser application where I does installation like this: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe /install:[path to xap file] /shortcut:desktop+startmenu This does create shortcut in the current user's…
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Signed XAP deployed to IIS is still Unverified for the user (client machine)

Just a problem. I was able to deploy my signed silverlight OOB on IIS on our Server. However despite that the signed xap was deployed to IIS, when accessing the app on the other machine (client) the Installation Menu still shows warning(Unverified)…
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Enabling Silverlight Out-of-browser breaks in-browser application

I am currently developing a small application in Silverlight, and recently to try it out, i enabled out-of-browser deployment for my application. However, now after I disabled the setting, running the application now throws an exception as soon as…
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How to pass data from Silverlight OOB application to asp.net website?

I created silver-light 4.0 application in that user can enter their username and password. After submit this secret data(username, password ) from SL application, it submitted to website with query string.. I want to pass as below URL string for…
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VS2010 - Debugging a silverlight 4 OOB with breakpoints in the WCF services

I created a silverlight 4 app , and chose to host it in a ASP.NET Web Application. I added a Silverlight-enabled WCF Service to the Web Application Project. The Web Application project is now set to be the startup project. This way every thing works…
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Resume download of file in Silverlight 4 OOB

I have a Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application that needs to be able to resume the download of an external file if the download is interrupted for any reason. I would like to be able resume instead of restart from the beginning because the file…
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Moonlight 4 out-of-browser

I'm trying to launch some of my existing Silverlight apps out-of-browser on Ubuntu and Moonlight 4 Preview. Install the apps was pretty sweet using Firefox and Chrome. I received the same error message for all samples I tried: Fails to execute…
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