Background: We have an offshore group working up a Silverlight 2 prototype for us. There is the conception that we need to be very concerned with lazy loading of various ‘screens’/parts of the application. The offshore group has decided to dynamically load assemblies in order to achieve this; however, I would think MS has already dealt with this issue.
Question: Does Silverlight already deal with loading assemblies in an intelligent manner or is that something that we will have to be concerned with?
Silverlight does have a built in ability to fetch various bits of the application in an on demand basis. However all these bits would be listed initially in the manifest.
However I suspect your partners are thinking in terms of dynamically determining new chunks of the application being downloaded and displayed even after the intial xap has been built.
I don’t think you should be too concerned about this, its not actually excessively difficult to achieve.