Can Silverlight 4 run SSIS packages & SSRS reports directly? What about interacting with Office object models? I am wondering if Silverlight 4 can be used to create full blown Line of Business Apps and for me to skip learning WPF and using RIA services. I know SL is a subset of WCF. I don't know either and want to save time and concentrate on learning SL4 if it does LOB apps?
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As I recall, SSIS and SSRS expose a COM interface (though I could be wrong on that). If they do, then, yes, it would be possible to call SSIS packages through the out-of-browser option in Silverlight 4. See, for starters, this video.
However, this isn't really what Silverlight was designed for. If your LOB app is just a standard data access/updating thing, then, yeah, Silverlight is a reasonable candidate. But if you're having to interact with your enterprise infrastructure in any significant way that can't easily be wrapped in a WCF web service, I'd probably stick with WinForms or WPF. I suspect you'll probably find yourself chasing fewer dead ends.
Ken Smith
2009-12-18 06:30:31
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Did someone got this working? I tried the AutomationFactory.CreateObject("ProgId") approach. That's where I got stuck. What's the progid, and is this actually possible?
Frenk
2010-10-07 21:16:25