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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In a Silverlight 4 (OOB) app can you move the main window in code

In a Silverlight 4 out of browser app (oob) is there any way to programatically move the main window after the application start-up event. The reason / Use case: A user selects an option on a silverlight desktop gadget app, the apps window grows to…
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Is it possible to launch a Silverlight 4 OOB application from a web page?

I'm planning to build a download manager application and would like to be able to launch the application when a user clicks a button the site. The application would obviously already need to be installed on the client machine. There are a few…
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Silverlight 5 NotificationWindow captures mainwindow mouse

I'm finding that if you use the NotificationWindow with Silverlight 5 runtime in an out of browser app, while the notificationwindow is visible it captures any mouse input in the top left corner of the application's main window. This can be easily…
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Lock screen orientation in Silverlight

I'm developing an application on a tablet using Silverlight out-of-browser with portrait orientation. However, when the tablet is turned to landscape mode, the application also turns, and all the alignments are thrown off. I found a post…
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Using Isolated Storage to provide an offline mode of a module in an application

I'm working on an application that allows users to submit some sort of requests. The application is broken down into several Silverlight applications one of which is that for submitting the requests. I'm thinking of maybe providing Out-of-browser…
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Silverlight 4 drag-drop not working in OOB mode (under SL5 RC)

I added basic file drag drop to a Silverlight 4 OOB app and found it always gave the no-drop cursor. If I turn off OOB mode on the same app and found drag drop of files works fine in the browser. Does anyone know why the requirements for file…
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BarCode reader component for Silverlight/.net, resources, recommendations, animal crossing? oh my

I'm looking for a barcode reader component. Hoping to use it in a Silverlight Out of browser Application. Eventually be ported for usage in windows 8. Hoping to supliment physical bar code readers. Possibly reading other types the physical device…
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XAP Caching in Silverlight OOB, when using Prism

I have a Silverlight Out Of Browser Application built using Prism Framework. I am using WebClient to download the application module XAPs depending on the user logged in to the application. Now my Question is will these other XAPs which I am…
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Detect if Silverlight is installed from c#

I am creating an MSI for installing my Silverlight OOB application. It should install Silverlight Plugin if it is not present, or the required version is not present. So, how can I detect if Silverlight exists on my machine. If present how can I…
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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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Browser Pop-up WIndows and Silverlight OOB

Within the browser I can use this to open a pop-up window: System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(new Uri(uri), "_blank"); How do I do this when running outside of the browser?
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Silverlight Application.InstallState - Incorrect

I'm using the pattern Tim Heuer outlines here for my Silverlight 4 OOB installation pattern: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/08/12/silverlight-out-of-browser-force-install-pattern.aspx Here is my app's *Application_Startup* method: private…
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OOB Check Update Available

I need to check , Is the update available but don't need to download. How can I check this ? Thank You
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Communicating with a Silverlight 4 LocalMessageReceiver from a Desktop Application

I am working on a little Helper Application for a Silverlight 4 OOB App that can be installed to enhance the capabilities of the SL a bit (improved Clipboard Support, Global Hotkeys etc). I know that Silverlight's Local Message API is based on ALPC…
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Is it possible to write screen recording software using Silverlight?

I intend to develop a screen recording software. Which is something similar to Microsoft's Live Meeting Is it possible to write such App using Silverlight ? P.S, the reason why I prefer is Silverlight is because of it's X-Platform support.
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