Starting an “out of browser Silverlight 4 elevated app” from another “out of browser Silverlight 4 elevated app”

Question

I am concurrently running several different out of browser elevated applications and sending messages between them.

Is there a way for me to check to see if a specific one of those elevated out of browser Silverlight apps are currently running and if not programmatically start that app for the user? preferably without automation. If via automation, how?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Check out Tim Heuer's post http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/03/25/using-sllauncher-for-silent-install-silverlight-application.aspx on how you can launch OOB applications. It would be necessary to use automation to run sllauncher.exe. As for detecting if OOB aplication is allready running I'd look to local messaging api. I haven't worked with it myself, so I can only suggest to give it a try.

Answer 2

After continuing to search for answers on this problem I finally found this post: link

It is a bit of a hack and will not work on a Mac (for now) but it's a start.

I thought I would share it back in case others here were interested.