Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

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Interacting with the Host Operating System

Although Silverlight started as a sandboxed platform that ran only within a web browser window, it's grown to become a mature platform for building applications that inevitably required a certain level of integration and interaction with the host operating system.

With the introduction of Silverlight 3, we gained the ability to run a Silverlight application outside the browser in its own window, launching it from an icon on the desktop or the start menu, and using it in much the same way as a standard (native) application. Silverlight 4 enabled developers to request elevated trust permissions to gain direct access to the file system and COM for applications that ran outside the browser, ...