![]() This would be the main XAP and would be the same one that would be in the Source parameter of the tag where you normally would host this. You’ll also want to have a copy of the XAP handy that you’ll want to be installing. You’ll need to ensure that the plugin is installed as I mentioned earlier. Let’s take a look at the required steps and a scenario. I’m investigating how to do something similar here with scripting on OSX, but I’m unfortunately not a Mac developer :-). Out-of-browser applications on OSX are actually deployed as ‘apps’ (.app) versus how just the XAP is deployed on a Windows machine. NOTE: The features I’m describing here are for Windows machines. This is installed with the plugin and is located at %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight on the machine. Given those two requirements, the key tool at your disposal is sllauncher.exe. It would also require the ability to install out-of-browser applications (there is a possibility for an administrator to disable this feature). The function still requires the Silverlight plugin to be installed (and requires Silverlight 4). But again, this post is to merely outline the capabilities and I’ll let you all debate the reasons :-) I know some of you might be thinking Well if it is a managed desktop environment, why not just use WPF then? – and I would pose the same question to the customer as well first. Now I’m not going to write here about the merits of why you might want to do this other than to point out what I believe to be the 2 prominent scenarios: managed desktop deployment and CD/DVD distribution. In some instances where you want to deploy the app via managed desktop software or perhaps via CD-ROM, you don’t want to have to tell the user to start on an HTML page first. Currently every out-of-browser application (trusted or not) starts from an in-browser mechanism. One of the features we are introducing in Silverlight 4 is a ‘silent install’ mechanism for out-of-browser applications.
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