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I am building a silverlight app and would like to add p2p capabilities – allowing users to send each other data.
I don’t think you could make this work in Silverlight with a serverless environment.
You could probably do whatever you’re looking to do with a server and a web service, although this technically wouldn’t be a peer-to-peer application anymore. You’d have to send your messages to the server, and the server would then send to the appropriate client(s). If you follow this route you might also want to look into WCF RIA Services for Silverlight as it has built-in support for things like authentication.
EDIT — I don’t know if this is an option but it looks like someone has come up with a way to do P2P in Silverlight. However, it requires that you run the app in Windows Live Messenger:
http://www.codeplex.com/SilverlightP2P