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A comment on Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA for rich, real-time collaboration. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by stormideas on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:25AM (#430625)
At the moment if you want to turn it into a desktop application then you've got two choices:

1. WPF application - copy / share the code with a full blown WPF application and fix any incompatibility errors (Silverlight is a subset of the full .NET framework so there shouldn't be many).

2. Mesh Application - Live Mesh applications include the ability to run Silverlight outside of the browser, like a desktop application (short cuts, start menu items etc). I've done a bit of a proof of concept of this (http://www.vimeo.com/2542327 for an overview) but this introduces a hard dependancy on the user having Live Mesh installed so for the moment it's just proof of concept.

Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by pclark on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:46AM (#430669)
do you run OS X? I guess you could just make a browser app (eg, Fluid)

I was just thinking users like having a "desktop" application - might re-iterate the lovely Silverlight experience if the user could "download" a copy.

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