Copy silverlight out of browser application

Question

Hello,

After a user installs a silverlight app out of the browser, can they copy the application to another computer? If so, are there any good strategies to avoid this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Although I've not tried it, I don't see why they couldn't.

I'm assuming they could just browse to C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Silverlight\OutOfBrowser and copy the xap file. All that's left to do is call sllauncher.exe to install it on the new computer.

 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe"
                          /install:"C:\Temp\Example.xap"
                          /origin:"http://www.someurl.com/silverlight"
                          /shortcut:desktop

I'm not aware of any strategy you could employ to prevent this.