I am planning for a multi part blog series on Silverlight Out Of Browser Capabilities using Silverlight 4.
Recently I have explored the silverlight’s capabilities as an Out Of Browser application and I found it’s very much sound and interesting.
But what I have noticed is all the features of silverlight OOB (Out Of Browser) capabilities are not available at one place or not really available in proper order to explore for any developer like me. So I have decided to write a multi part blog series on Silverlight’s Out Of Browser capabilities.
So in next couple of months I will write around 8 blogs on the topic and the current list of blogs is as following……
1.> Getting Started with Silverlight’s Out of Browser Capabilities
2.> OOB Custom window and events
3.> OOB Notification API
4.> OOB Trusted File Access
5.> OOB Trusted Network Access
6.> OOB Trusted COM API
7.> OOB XAP signing for trusted Applications
8.> OOB Using Isolated Storage
I will try to publish these blogs on time and in given order.
As I will write the blog, I will link that blog with the list given here that anyone can simply browse through any blog on the topic from here only.
I will use Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 throghout the blog series.
Look forward to your entries.
I migrated my OOB App from Beta1 recently.
I am now using VS 2010, Win 7 Ultimate x64 and SL 4 Release.
COM Interop is working fine BUT javascript running in the OOB App Webbrowser finds windows.external to be empty. So I am unable to call window.external.notify.
Do you have any ideas?
TIA
First of all sorry for the delay in my blog series but you can expect couple of blogs in this series very soon.
Practically javascript is not supported directy in silverlight OOB app as it runs outside the browser and when you use window.external.notify, you actually try to access the browser window.
I am not sure if there is any work around to this limitation.
But for notifications, you can use Silverlight Notification API (designed for OOB silverlight apps only), which is very easy to use and very much configurable (in terms of UI design and functionality) as well.
You can find a good getting started example on Notification API here on Code Project….. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/44266/Silverlight-4-How-to-work-with-Notification-API.aspx
Hope this helps…..