Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 -- #546

In this OOB Issue: Nikolay Raychev, Shawn Wildermuth, Tim Heuer, Chris Hay(3), Mike Taulty, Mark Monster, Pete Brown, Chris Koenig, Alex Golesh, and Alex Knight


From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications)
Nikolay Raychev details out what all you need to get your app to have an OOB experience.
Enabling Out-of-Browser Support in Silverlight 3
Shawn Wildermuth demonstrates the user experience of OOB then shows the code changes to get it and a detach working.
Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model
Tim Heuer takes a completely different stance than others with his OOB post and discusses the network data going on with detailed info about the situation, then compares it to Adobe AIR.
Silverlight: Out of Browser, uninstalling doesn't update execution state
Chris Hay reports an issue with the execution state during an OOB experience.
Silverlight: Out of Browser Videos
Chris Hay has a couple videos up (already!) on taking an app OOB.
Silverlight: OOB: Detach, user cancelling and exceptions
Chris Hay gives us a nice list of 'gotchas' he has found working with the OOB code. Not problems, just good to know stuff!
A quick look at Silverlight 3: Running Outside the Browser
Mike Taulty has a complete end-to-end post on setting an app up for OOB including icons, a detach button, and pushing an update to the detached experience.
Silverlight 3 – Out of browser support
Mark Monster has a very complete post from the code to get the OOB effect running, all the way to checking if the app is off or online, auto-updating the OOB app, and handling init parameters, which David Yack defined more clearly in a comment.
Silverlight 3 – Taking Silverlight Out of the Browser
Pete Brown used his Commodore 64 emulator as a complete example of taking an app out of browser, lots of screenshots, all the code, and icons.
Silverlight 3 Out-of-Browser Support
Chris Koenig starts with a complete set of download links then built an app in Blend to take OOB, and shows all the settings to get it running outside the browser, including wiring up a button inside the app to do the Detach.
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #2: How to prepare your Silverlight 3 application offline
Alex Golesh not only details the developer experience to take an app OOB, but also details using custom icons.
Silverlight on the desktop
Alex Knight posted a short example of the end-user experience of taking an application out of the browser, with screen shots.

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posted @ Monday, March 23, 2009 11:49 AM
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