Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

Chapter 14. Out of Browser Mode, and Interacting with the Operating System

Although Silverlight started as a sandboxed platform that only ran 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, you gained the ability to run Silverlight applications 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. Now with Silverlight 4 you can also request elevated trust permissions to gain direct access to the file system and COM. This permits your applications ...