Silverlight 3 came up with Out Of Browser support. Using that feature one can install the application just like a standalone windows application. Hence no need to open the browser to run the Silverlight application. Today for the first time I gone thru the APIs & created a sample application. Here I will discuss about the same to give you a demonstration. It is quite easy to implement.

Create a Silverlight application using Visual Studio 2008. This will automatically create “MainPage.xaml”. Now open the MainPage.xaml & add the following lines inside the LayoutRoot Grid:

<StackPanel Margin="20" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
    <TextBlock Text="Silverlight Out Of Browser Demo Application" 
               FontSize="20" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>
    <Button x:Name="btnInstall" Content="Install as Out Of Browser Application" 
            Width="300" Height="20" Margin="20"/>
</StackPanel>

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Microsoft released their all new Operating System as expected. From now onwards it is available for the general public i.e. you can purchase a new PC/Laptop with Windows 7 preloaded. Not only this, those who recently purchased PC/Laptop with Windows Vista they are able to upgrade to Windows 7 free of charge. So, grab your copy now & enjoy the real experience with Windows 7.

For last couple of months I am using the trial edition of Windows 7. According to me, it is a great operating system Microsoft had ever launched with lots of goodies. My special thanks to Microsoft & Windows 7 team for their excellent work.

No doubt this is really a great Microsoft Operating System with a huge performance boost, a great UI, new taskbar & multi-touch function. Here are the list of things I liked more in Windows 7:

• A great new Graphical User Interface
• The all new Taskbar & Taskbar thumbnails panel
• The new Taskbar Jump List
• A huge performance boost than the earlier operating systems
• Multi-touch capability
• The latest User Account Control, which is now a great experience rather than Vista
• Scheduled Desktop Wallpaper changer & Theme support
• New kernel dumping methods which actually improved the performance
• The new control panel, device manager & user libraries
• And more…

It’s definitely a great ERA in the computing world.