

Here you’ll find an ‘ Enable running application out of the browser’ checkbox – check this and then then click on the ‘ Out-of-Browser’ setting button to see the additional options that are available. All the necessary settings are within the ‘ Project Properties Dialog’ in your Silverlight Application Project. In this article we’ll cover the benefits of SLOOB, or Silverlight Out-Of-Browser and what you need to do in order to implement all its features, for both Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4įor the purpose of this article, we’ll be looking at a simple ‘Swag Tracking’ application that demonstrates the features of Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications.įig 1 – Our Sample Swag Tracking Silverlight application Going OutĪn ‘out-of-browser’ application is created in exactly the same way as any other Silverlight application. Now that it is more common to build enterprise business applications with Silverlight, this feature has become more useful, particularly as it is supported on both Windows and Mac OS X When Silverlight 3 was released back in July 2009, one of the features that stood out was the facility to take a Silverlight application and install it onto the local users’ desktop machine so that it could be run offline, or without the overhead of running within the full browser. Silverlight Beyond the Browser: The Basics - Simple Talk Skip to content
