silverlight-oob

Silverlight page says that it won't work on all Mac browsers after March 2017, but the question about future of OOB Silverlight on Mac is simply unclear. So the question is, how do OOB apps work on Mac? Do they use Safari to run, and are supposed to stop to work after this March 2017? Do they run independently from the browser and will continue to work, even after browser support isn't available anymore? According to this article a user is required to install the OOB version from the browser. Presumably if browser support is removed users will be unable to install the OOB applications. It is

I have a single codebase that can install an OOB SL5 app in various configurations. Based on the configuration at runtime (selected by init parameters) I would like to update the OOB Settings (title, window title) prior to performing the install. It appears that the only way is through the OutOfBrowserSettings.xml file (or the Project Settings UI) at compile time. Am I missing something or is this just the way it is? According to MSDN you can do that. To configure an existing application for out-of-browser support without recompiling, add the configuration XML to the manifest in an existing

The Get Silverlight page now shows Dec 31 2016 as the end of support for Silverlight in Safari. That seems to be unannounced news and it is unclear if it was set by Apple or Microsoft. The date matches the Firefox end of support for NPAPI . Q1: Could a Silverlight app continue to be viable (and installable) as an OOB app on the Mac beyond that? Or does the inevitable loss of broswer NPAPI support mean the complete end-of-the-line for Silverlight on Macs? The post here seems to offer some hope, but it is quite old. Q2: Can anyone point to a source/announcement of that Safari end of support date

Can I access Registry from Silverlight Out Of Browser , I just want to search/read the key and get key value pairs. Is this possible? Or, is there any other way like running a powershell script , or launching some other exe to know the values, how can I get the return values from these script/exe to my silverlight application. we can do it using RegRead using (dynamic shell = AutomationFactory.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")) { var key = shell.RegRead(@"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\......"); } OOB can use COM objects, so pretty much "anything" is possible (but it will be Windows specific of course)

Silverlight Out of Browser technology and WPF ClickOnce on the surface have similarities. Easy and simple deployment, the ability to specify the level of trust access to the underlying host, etc. What are the key issues I need to consider when choosing one over the other? To put a finer point on it, I'll be deploying LOB apps on a corporate network running only windows computers. You mentioned trust access to the host which I think rules out Silverlight unless you want to run SL4 (beta). We recently went through a lot of discussion about file system access. Silverlight 3 runs in a partial