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It gave the front end developer access to the native win32 API througb COM. That means you could effectively write a native app and deliver it over the web. Pow
by ShhhDontTell 6y ago
It gave the front end developer access to the native win32 API througb COM. That means you could effectively write a native app and deliver it over the web. Powerful but also malware-prone.
- Ididntdothis 6y agoReally ? Maybe this was an option but I thought Silverlight was generally sandboxed. ActiveX could do native though
- rogihee 6y agoYup, really! I had a USB-to-Serial FTDI 232R with an actual device running in Silverlight back in 2012-ish. Just made a demo, but it worked.
- Ididntdothis 6y agoWas that Silverlight on the desktop or in the browser? For a while Silverlight was the recommended desktop UI toolkit until it wasn’t a little later.