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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by Ididntdothis on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:27AM (#23333393)
Really ? Maybe this was an option but I thought Silverlight was generally sandboxed. ActiveX could do native though
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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by rogihee on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:19AM (#23334042)
Yup, 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.
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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by Ididntdothis on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:47AM (#23337164)
Was 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.
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