Silverlight Tip of the Day #108 – How to Create an Out of Browser Application.
Out of browser support allows Silverlight applications to run as a stand alone application out of the browser. This is especially useful if you have an application that you want to run when you are offline and unable to connect via the browser.
Configuring your Silverlight application to run out of browse is fairly straight forward in VS. To do so, follow these steps:
- Right click on your Silverlight project in the solution explorer and choose Properties.
- From the Properties window click on the Silverlight tab and check the box labeled “Enable running application of out the browser.” Next, click the Out of browser settings button as seen below.
- This will bring up the Out-of-Browser Settings dialog as seen below. Fill out the fields to match your desired settings. Notice that if you do not want to use the default icon you can specify your own images. Click the OK button when you are done.
- At this point your application supports running out of browser.
- To install the Silverlight application on your desktop run it and then right click on the application to invoke the context menu as seen below.
- Choose Install SilverlightApplication…onto this computer. This will bring up a dialog that lets you choose where to install the application to.
- At this point your application will be installed and launched in an out of browser window. Clicking on the icon (as seen below) on your desktop or start menu will automatically launch the application in a window outside of your browser.
Thank you,
--Mike Snow
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