I think I found what I was looking for:
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/m...plication.aspx
Brad.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:08:42 -0700, Bradley Plett
<plettb@newsgroup.nospamwrote:
Quote:
>Is ActiveX still the only technology to allow for a full-featured
>application hosted in a browser? Specifically, I need an application,
>hosted in a browser (i.e. on a web page), that is capable of launching
>applications on the client machine. I had hopes that I could do this
>with Silverlight, but it appears the sandbox is too limiting.
>
>As far as I can tell, if I want to launch an application, I have two
>alternatives:
>1) ActiveX
>2) Custom MIME type registered on the client machine
>Are there other options?
>
>If Silverlight is capable of doing this, can someone point me to some
>documentation or samples?
>
>Thanks!
>Brad.
