All of the options we mentioned required full trust, but this one at least doesn't require COM Interop to inspect the file system :)
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > Ah, nice. Will have to remember that one. Of course you'll need elevated > trust to be able to do that, but looks like a good solution. Thanks for > sharing Miguel. > > Chris > > > On 5 October 2010 15:26, Miguel Madero <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Everyone, >> >> I remember a few months ago at an SDDN meeting we were talking about >> options to start an OOB App like looking at the shortcuts in the start menu >> or trying to guess based on the random paths that the app might get >> installed on. I found a nice option. Essentially we use the 'origin' as the >> key instead of trying to find the path to the xap. >> >> >> From Tim Heuer >> blog<http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/03/25/using-sllauncher-for-silent-install-silverlight-application.aspx> >> >> Automatically Launching the App >> >> So what if you wanted to also automatically launch the app after >> installing (i.e., the CD/DVD ‘autorun’ scenario). You again would use >> sllauncher.exe to do this for you *after you’ve installed the app*. >> Using our same sample above here would be the command: >> >> 1: "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe" >> >> >> >> 2: /emulate:"Silverface.xap" >> >> >> >> 3: >> /origin:"http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/ClientBin/Silverface.xap"; >> >> >> >> 4: /overwrite >> >> Notice the *emulate* command. This is the launcher. Now you’ll notice >> that this isn’t the same command-line options if you looked at an installed >> applications’ created shortcuts. Because the folder where the XAP gets >> installed is pretty random, we use the origin as the hint to the >> sllauncher.exe program to find the right app for us and start it up. I’ve >> found that using /overwrite will also give a more consistent behavior. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Miguel A. Madero Reyes >> www.miguelmadero.com (blog) >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozsilverlight mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > > -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com (blog) [email protected]
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