Is it possible to start a client-side app from Silverlight?

Question

I have a simple company portal which allows users to start their apps from the browser. The URLs in the hypelinks are passed (using Javascript) to a signed applet to actually start the client-side apps. All clients are XP or Vista and all run IE6 or IE7.

I have recently been looking at Silverlight and am wondering if I could do something similar. Ideally, I'd like to do everything from Silverlight and get rid of the applet.

Is it possible to call client-side apps from Silverlight? Can I sign a Silverlight app to give it extra rights?

Answer 1

You can call javascript from silverlight just as use use javascript with links.

For example to call somefunction with parameter:

HtmlPage.Window.CreateInstance("somefunction", new string[] { "parameter1" });

There's a good video about Html Browser integration here