Chapter 5. Integrating with the desktop
Silverlight started as an in-browser technology, primarily used for media and simple games. It later evolved into a more capable business technology and added some useful but basic desktop integration with additions such as isolated storage and the OpenFileDialog
. With version 3, Silverlight gained the ability to run outside of the browser as a sandboxed desktop application. Starting with Silverlight 4, the sandbox ...
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