Silverlight detecting devices

Question

Hello,

I would like to know if silverlight can access devices such as GPS or a form of location base device that can tell the application the returned location.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Per this SO answer, it's not feasible in 3.0 (it would require reading a COM port, and SL 3 can't do that), though there are hopes in 4.0 with an auxiliary COM object (if and where you can convince your users to install such a COM object, of course;-).