It's so easy to enable the offline feature of Silverlight 3 ! J
In Visual Studio, just go to your project properties. In the Silverlight tab, you'll find an "enable running application out of the browser".
If you check the checkbox, the button « Out-of-Brower Settings » will be enabled.
Clicking on this button, you'll find this dialog screen:
This is where you can customize the settings for the offline application:
- The title, width and height of the windows.
- The name of the shortcut.
- A description that will become the comment property of the shortcut (on windows).
- Different size icons. Pay attention, the icons must be in PNG format.
- A checkbox to use or not the GPU acceleration.
Here is the resulting OutOfBrowserSettings.xml in the case of my Home Loan Application :
<OutOfBrowserSettingsShortName="Home Loan Calculator"EnableGPUAcceleration="False"ShowInstallMenuItem="True">
<OutOfBrowserSettings.Blurb>HomeLoanCalculator Application on your desktop; at home, at work or on the go.OutOfBrowserSettings.Blurb>
<OutOfBrowserSettings.WindowSettings>
<WindowSettingsTitle="Home Loan Calculator Application" />
OutOfBrowserSettings.WindowSettings>
<OutOfBrowserSettings.Icons>
<IconSize="16,16">Images/Icon16.pngIcon>
<IconSize="32,32">Images/Icon32.pngIcon>
<IconSize="48,48">Images/Icon48.pngIcon>
<IconSize="128,128">Images/Icon128.pngIcon>
OutOfBrowserSettings.Icons>
OutOfBrowserSettings>
This file is saved in the Properties folder of my project.
In Blend 3.0 RC, it's also possible to enable the offline feature in this menu path :
Project > Silverlight Project Options > Enable Application Outside Browser
But I don't see where the settings (icons, window title, …) are.
To test the offline feature describe in this post for my Home Loan Application, go there : http://www.renaldnollet.com/samples/HomeLoanSL3V0_2/
See you!