Running Business Apps Offline

摘要

We've been looking at creating line of business applications with Silverlight 3 since the past few months. One of the cool new features of Silverlight 3 however is the ability to run an application without viewing it in a Web browser in an Out-of-Browser (OOB) environment. These applications can be 'installed' on the client machine and be run of a shortcut icon. They open with a normal window rather than being embedded within a browser and have a bunch of other features as well. The advantage with such an approach is that you can go ahead and create a single application that runs both as a web-based application through a browser as well as a standalone application installed on the client machine. For example, you could be creating an LoB application that can be used by end-users (say like a tax form) for submitting their individual information. But the same application can be used in OOB mode to allow CAs to process tax forms.