Communicating between a Silverlight web app and a WPF desktop app

[DeanB]

Hello,

My group is in the planning stages for a web-based application
(possibly in Silverlight 3.0), and it has to communicate with a WPF
client application on the same machine (for example to GoTo a record
for enhanced editing).

Is this possible, and if so what are the classes or method involved?
We are moving from a Borland development environment, and have little
experiance with WPF/Silverlight, so we're looking for pointers of
where to go and what to read.

Thank you for any information.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

If you make one solution with one Business layer, one Data Layer, One WPF
Client layer, One WCF layer (for Silver Light), one Silver Light Client
layer, then you can with the same solution any direction that you want.

A Silverligth application is for those situations where you have no rights
on the client computer, otherwise take simple the WPF layer, because that is
forever faster and easier to handle for the developer and the client

However, your communication is never from Silver Light to WPF desktop, those
are both just simple UI layers.

Cor