Questions tagged [silverlight-oob]

Silverlight-based application that provides support for running outside the browser (Out-of-Browser).

Out-of-browser applications are subject to the same security sandbox restrictions as ordinary in-browser applications. Some of these restrictions can be relaxed by configuring the application to require elevated trust.

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Silverlight OOB vs WPF ClickOnce

Silverlight Out of Browser technology and WPF ClickOnce on the surface have similarities. Easy and simple deployment, the ability to specify the level of trust access to the underlying host, etc. What are the key issues I need to consider when…
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Silverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser issues: app displays blank (white) screen, no exceptions thrown, no breakpoints hit

I'm having issues with Silverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser, as specified in the title. What I did: Update project settings to enable Out-Of-Browser. This enabled OOB, but when I ran the app in this way it just displayed a white screen. What I have done to…
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Prevent Isolated storage deletion Silverlight 4 OOB

I have developed one OOB SL4 applicaton for a food chain, and it stores outlet bills locally in isolated storage, and these bills gets uploaded when Internet connection would be available. All is working fine. But I have seen that if I open…
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Plugin crashes on refreshing page from app on Win 7

I have a page with Silverlight 4 oob app. After app is installed the bage on the page should automatically refresh. I tried calling the scripts or simple Document.Submit from code on InstallStateChanged - and they all worked well on win XP (not…
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XAP Caching in Out of Browser (OOB) Silverlight Applications

When a Silverlight 4 application is installed and run out-of-browser (OOB), is it possible to have the application automatically recognize updates to the .xap file (and either automatically install or prompt the user to update)? If you access the…
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How to ensure that a Silverlight OOB app only has a single instance?

Is there a way to ensure that only a single instance of the desktop version of a trusted Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser app will run? Or do I need to manually enforce this through the creation of a crude mutex of some sort? If I must enforce this…
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Silverlight client-side database with LINQ

I'm creating an out of browser silverlight app and would like to have a database in the client side. I've looked at sqlite but it seems that it does not work with silverlight. It would be great if I could use LINQ with it. I would prefer a free…
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Can I use a company's timestamping server with self-signed certificates?

I'm interested in signing my Silverlight XAP with a self-signed certificate, so it can auto-update. I haven't tried yet, but figure I can create a certificate easily with this question/answer I found on StackOverflow. But it's not clear to me what…
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Silverlight OOB Splash Screen

In my Silverlight 5 OOB main method I'm setting a custom Application.Current.MainWindow.Left and Application.Current.MainWindow.Top. When starting the application the OOB window appears briefly at the default position which is set in the…
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Silverlight 5 - OOB install/update broken when using anti-cache trick

I was using the timestamp trick on the Silverlight (see GetLastWriteTime() using answers in How do you force Firefox to not cache or re-download a Silverlight XAP file?) successfully with Silverlight 4. Using a Silverlight 5 runtime*, the…
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Silverlight OOB strange behaviour with Fiddler

I have a Silverlight app I've composed with Prism using MEF to dynamically load modules. When I take this app out of browser I experience some strange behaviour! If fiddler happens to be running when I load my SL app, the modules load as expected…
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Opening up PDFs and other documents from Silverlight out of browser

I'm having a little problem figuring out the best way to open up a file that I have stored in a database. The file is being stored as a byte array in a nvarbinary field in the database. Currently when I want to open up a file I use an ASP.NET…
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Does the Silverlight Navigation template work with running out of browser?

Does the Silverlight Navigation template work when running out of browser?
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Mac App Store + Silverlight out of browser, would it ever work?

Yeah I know it's a dumb question, and that of course it wouldn't work. Any kind of work around I can think it stands very little chance of being accepted... For example what about an accessory application for say printing that launches the main…
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Silverlight 4 OOB with local data options

Right now I have a Winform app with a SQL Server back end. The DAL is comprised of Linq to SQL. One of the complexities of this app is it's need to function offline. I have accomplished this by using Merge Replication to keep there local SQL…
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