Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Partitioning Your Application

The next issue that you should target is the size of your application. As soon as you start referencing various assemblies and adding assets to your application, it can rapidly increase in size. It will depend on the nature of your application as to whether this is an issue you should be concerned about. In an internal corporate environment where the application will be downloaded from a server located on the local network, this is generally not a particularly big issue. However, if your application is being deployed over the Internet, it becomes something that you should pay closer attention to. The larger the application, the longer it will take for the user to download it and get it up and running, and the more ...