Ok, so I am a huge fan of the Silverlight development environment, C# and XAML represent one of the best UI design paradigms in computing today. Needless to say, I cannot thank the Moonlight project enough for bringing Silverlight support to Linux. The problem is, Microsoft either want’s me to develop a desktop application or a web-based application…. And only one of those is cross platform. Needless to say, if I restrict my WPF application to exclusively Silverlight-available libraries, I can get it to run on Linux. This is far from seamless, but in a pinch, it can be an option.
However, a far better solution would be to load Silverlight in the browser, while offline. (Taking advantage of the Silverlight plugin and its packaging). Utilizing Google Gears, I was able to serve up the compiled .xap file and run the Silverlight app in Firefox without a connection to the server hosting it. I haven’t had a chance to test how IsolatedStorage behaves under these conditions, or how Moonlight handles it (couldn’t get the latest 2.0 to build), but here is the VS2008 solution I used to get everything working.
This is absolutely brilliant!
Someone also wrote a .NET binding to Google Gears so Silverlight applications can use the SQL storage on it.
Really? I would love to play with that more, does anyone want to share a link? I wanna add it to the post for continuity.
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I think I’d go nuts debugging moonlight if I couldn’t do it via local file loading…
hello,
I am looking forward to use silverlight technology in my web site…..is there any tutorial that can help me do that?
If you want to work with a native Silverlight database you can use siaqodb ( http://siaqodb.com ). It store objects directly on client machine; objects are retrieved back using LINQ in optimized way
Hey, I found this blog article while looking for help with fixing Microsoft Silverlight. I’ve recently switched browsers from Chrome to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. After the change I seem to have a problem with loading websites that use Microsoft Silverlight. Everytime I go on a website that requires Microsoft Silverlight, my computer doesn’t load and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I cannot seem to find out how to fix the problem. Any aid getting Microsoft Silverlight to work is greatly appreciated! Thanks