Question

I want to create a Silverlight (Framework 4.0, C# and Visual Studio 2010) application that loads some XML configuration files from the local directory of the application. I need that the code loads all the files in a specific directory.

I’m not able to do it with System.IO Directory.GetFiles, how can I do that?

Answer 1

Silverlight code runs in a browser, and you can’t “open files locally” at will – when you come to it there are plenty of tutorials available when you search with silverlight open file on Bing.

In your case, you seem to want to read files from a server where a Silverlight application is hosted. It is allowed by security restrictions, so make a web request to your origin and get the data. That is, use WebClient.DownloadStringAsync – that is, see Silverlight FlickR Example _{(link provided by Alex Golesh @ in an MSDN forum post)}