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Asked: 2026-05-13T05:53:30+00:00

I’d like to start making a small project (nothing too fancy) for the desktop

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I’d like to start making a small project (nothing too fancy) for the desktop and web using Silverlight. Here are my questions:

  1. Will I need Silverlight 4.0 or does 3.0 have out-of-browser features? Are there significant changes between the two versions, with regard to this?

  2. What other options do I have besides Silverlight? I’m also considering using Silverlight for the online portion and a separate WPF project for the desktop. I don’t have any Flash/Flex/Air experience. Besides .NET, I have some experience with C++, Java, and PHP.

  3. Does anyone have experience with this? I know it’s new technology (beta!) so I’m expecting bumps along the way. If I can just have one codebase, that would be fantastic, though.

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    1. silverlight 3 has out-of-browser features.

    2. Beside silverlight the only alternative i can think of is (althought a bit different) Java Web Start technology – java desktop application downloaded from web server.

    3. I used it in one project and there were no problems. The same silverlight control was presented in browser and could be installed as a desktop application with one click. Few lines of code was enought to achieve this. Here is some tutorial

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