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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How can I have a config file for Silverlight OOB?

I have a Silverlight application with some appSettings in my Web.Config file. Now I want to make it OOB, what is the best way to handle this. Should I download config file using WebClient when running in OOB. Please suggest if you have any good…
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Access registry from Silverlight OOB

Can I access Registry from Silverlight Out Of Browser, I just want to search/read the key and get key value pairs. Is this possible? Or, is there any other way like running a powershell script, or launching some other exe to know the values, how…
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New window in Silverlight out-of-browser application

In a Silverlight application that doesn't run in a browser, is it possible to create a new top-level window? Or at least a child window? I found some solution using the ChildWindow class, but even though my project is configured for Silverlight 4,…
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Silverlight torrent client

Is it possible to implement a torrent client using Silverlight? If not, is it possible to do that in Silverlight OOB?
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Silverlight OOB - own chrome with Windows 7 docking behaviour

I'm creating Silverlight OOB application with its own chrome (title bar, minimize, maximize buttons and so on). I've implemented the resizing functionality and everything works quite good. Still I would like to add one more functionality. I would…
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Install Silverlight OOB app from within another Silverlight app

I have a big LOB Silverlight App that works in browser and now I need to do smth with elevated priveleges so I need to install smth OOB. But I don't want to install whole app with all its complexity and assumptions - I'd want to have a small…
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clickonce versus windows gadget versus silverlight OOB?

We are building for a customer an intranet communication portal (which is based on SharePoint 2010, but I think this is not important). One of his requirement is to push the latests news in a "widget" (in functional terms), both from the intranet…
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Can't get My Documents path in Silverlight 4.0

For some reason this line of code... var dirInfo = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments); ...returns an empty string on my dev machine. I'm running OOB and with elevated trust on Win7. I don't honestly know quite where…
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Can I capture traffic with Fiddler OOB Silverlight 4 app?

I've got a Silverlight 4 OOB elevated trust app. I am trying to debug my WCF calls but I can't capture traffic in Fiddler (latest version). I am running in debug mode with the service calls and app on same machine. I have tried without the debugger…
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Getting Exception when trying to export data form datagrid to excel in silverlight 4.0

Am using silverlight 4.0 ,here am trying to export the data from datagrid to excel and getting exception as This operation is not supported in the current context for excel when running in the browser but it works in OOB(out of browser) window.Here…
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Silverlight InstallStateChanged does not fire

I'm developing an out-of-browser (OOB) app using Silverlight 4. For installation, I present a webpage with an install button to install the app OOB. When the user clicks the button, Application.Current.Install is executed, installing the app…
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How to position my Silverlight OOB window to the bottom right corner of the desktop?

I'm trying to move an Out-of-browser (OOB) Silverlight app to the bottom right corner, above the systray. The app is sized to 160x100. I just can't get it close enough to the bottom of the screen. The moment I set the "Top" property above a certain…
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Am I right to think SilverLight Out Of Browser has a high potential as a security breach?

Creating an OOB with silverlight is very easy and I think it is a good thing. However, it is also easy to create an application that require higher privilege and with only one click, a user can "allow" the program to do everything on his…
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Silverlight: Bing Map Control in OOB possible?

I'm playing with the Bing Map control for Silverlight and an out-of-browser (OOB) app. I get the "map loaded in unsupported uri scheme" error because the control does not like to be hosted on the file system and wants a WebApplication instead…
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Can Silverlight Out-of-Browser app call .NET DLLs?

This might be a stupid question (I'm new to Silverlight!), but if I develop a .NET DLL with methods, can my Silverlight Out-of-browser app call and use this DLL and its methods if it is provided in the IsolatedStorage area of my Silverlight OOB…
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