June 2012
Beginner
1000 pages
33h 35m
English
Since the early versions, Silverlight has occupied an interesting space straddling both the web and desktop worlds. Silverlight 3 introduced out-of-browser mode. Silverlight 4 introduced elevated trust and COM automation support. Silverlight 5 capped it all off with support for p-invoke which is used to call native Win32 API-style functions. Pretty amazing for something that started off as a web technology!
In reality, most people developing new Silverlight applications are delivering desktop applications for Windows and use Silverlight for a number of reasons mentioned throughout this book. Those people have ...