How to configure an application outside of the browser in Silverlight

Visual Studio provides designer support to enable Silverlight-based applications to run outside the browser. This topic describes the basics of this designer support and the configuration outside of the browser.

Description

If your external browser application requires network-based resources that are typically loaded after startup, you also need to implement offline support.

Configure external browser support

In Solution Explorer, select the Silverlight project for which you want to enable external browser support.

On the Project menu, select the project name properties.

On the Silverlight tab, select Enable running application out of the browser.

The Out-of-browser Settings dialog box appears.

Specify a value for the indicated field, and then click OK. All fields except the following fields are optional:

Window Title

Shortcut name

Download description

The following table indicates where each value is used and the corresponding property of the Outofbrowsersettings or Windowsettings class.

Field	Description	Property
Window Title	Appears in the title bar of the application window outside of the browser.	Title
Width and Height	Indicates the size of the application window outside the browser.	Width and Height
Shortcut name	Appears in the External Browser Installation dialog box and on the installed application shortcuts.	ShortName
Download description	Appears as a tooltip on an installed application shortcut.	Blurb
Icon Fields	The operating system will select the most appropriate icon to display in the following locations: Setup dialog box. The application window. Windows Explorer. Windows task bar. Macintosh Docking Bar.	Icons
Enable GPU acceleration	Indicates whether to enhance graphics performance by using hardware acceleration.	Enablegpuacceleration