Can a aspx page be loaded into a Silverlight Control?

Question

Forgeive me if this is a dumb question, im very new to SL, just ordered 3 books which i should have tomorrow - but i cant stop thinking of the 'is it possible' stuff.

Heres what i would LOVE to do, dont know if it possible:

Have a SL control on a page that loads a passed in url or aspx (like the browser control for winforms) - the reason i would like this is the ability to have a page visible and use zooming/panning to view various parts of the page - this may sound stupid, but it would allow users to view/modify elements w/o having to open a sep window, iframe, etc to view it (and the zoom/pan would be bad ass)

Thanks in advance, please dont hate - if this is that stupid of an idea i'll wait to post again until i read my books.

BTW, WPF, etc is not an option, this has to be web based :-)

Answer 1

For the record "silverlight" is not the web nor is it well supported. At any rate you can load HTML into Silverlight using a html text block. Given how bad they are at writing browsers though I wouldn't hold out much hope of its rendering engine being any better, or less error-prone, than IE's.

Anyway, there's several things you can do:

Anyway, info here (htmltextblock) here and here

UPDATE: On further reading htmltextblock is some kind of user extension, and a pretty limited one at that. It doesn't look like zooming/panning rich HTML is possible.

Answer 2

The answer is No. There is no control within Silverlight which allows you to host some kind of WebBrowser control. I'm not sure what you would hope to gain bearing in mind most current browsers have a zoom facility of their own.