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QuestionSilverlight 3 OOB on Mac! Pin
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We are currently beta testing a Silverlight 3 application, and we decided not to use OOB because of all the disadvantages that are currently present. The app is always online and after login, it always launches into a popup window without all the toolbars and such - basically the same thing.

I'll go in reverse order:

#3 - the way we do this is to open a new browser window linked to an auto-generated PDF/XPS file. This obviously wouldn't work if you needed your application to run offline, but otherwise it works pretty well - the user gets a "print preview" right away and they can print from there.

#2 - You can use an embedded database that has been ported to Silverlight, such as: http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou/archive/2009/07/11/embedded-database-engine-for-silverlight-applications.aspx[^]

or port an existing open source .NET database engine. There was one I ran into a while ago, don't remember the name, but it used the standard DBase file format.

I don't think there is any way to retain support for your access database locally. If you don't mind going over the internet for data, you could use SQL or whatever on the backend and communicate query results with web services.

#1 - You are on your own for this one...I'm not sure to be honest. But I will say that licenses that tie themselves to a particular hardware configuration drive me nuts - what happens if my HDD dies? What happens if you guys go out of business and my HDD dies, and then I can't even use the license I still own!

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It is my honest opinion that if you are going the Silverlight route, you should re-think the architecture of your application. I have no idea what your application does, but GENERALLY speaking, anything that needs a database and licensing is better off being a connected application. Licensing can be enforced by the server (i.e. only one connection with a particular license key is allowed) so you don't have any hardware-binding issues, and the database would obviously be centralized in that scenario. The printing issues are largely taken care of with PDF/XPS exporting from the server.
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QuestionHow to get the return value from a service in silver light Pin
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