How to distribute a Silverlight OOB Application?

Table of Contents
Introduction
Background
Step1 : Creating a Silverlight OOB Application
Creating a Project
Configuring OOB Settings
Publishing Application as .XAP
Step2 : Configuring CD-ROM Installation
Basic to Silverlight OOB Installation
Basic to Silverlight OOB Silent Installation
Basic to HTA File
Creating the Folder Structure
Configuring Silverlight Runtime Detection
Configuring OOB Application Installation
Configuring CD-ROM Installation Launch
Step3 : Demo
Summary

Introduction
One of the new features introduced in Silverlight 4 is the silent installation of Silverlight Out-of-Browser application. This means, without user intervention, you can directly install them to their machines. You don’t have to open the browser window to install the OOB app. This is perfect for CD-ROM distribution. You can even automate the process from the CD/DVD media; if the user already has permission to auto run external media.

Here in this article, I will first create a simple OOB Silverlight application and then show you the steps to install it as OOB application silently.

Step1 : Creating a Silverlight OOB Application
In this first step, we will first create a Silverlight Application and design the UI. As our goal in this article is to deploying the application as OOB, hence we will not focus deeply into the UI. Later we will configure the application for OOB and after the successful build; we will publish the .XAP file to a local folder. If you already know about these steps can skip to the next Step.

Creating a Project

Open your Visual Studio 2010 IDE
Go to File –> New –> Project or just press Ctrl + Shift + N to open the New Project dialog

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