How to play youtube vidoes in silverlight(in browser)?

Question

I want to develop an silverlight application which plays youtube videos. I dont want to let users install my silverlight application on thri PCs, so I would need to play the videos in browser. Is there anyway we can achieve this?

Answer 1

Hi there,

Silverlight 4 comes with a new WebBrowser control which lets you display HTML content (e.g. an iframe with youtube in it). Unfortunately, that control will work in Out-Of-Browser mode only. So if you don't want users to install your app on their PCs, that won't be an option for you.

So the only ways I see to work around that problem are

A) Open a popup (new browser window) which shows youtube content.

B) Use JavaScript to open a new div/iframe on top of your Silverlight app which shows youtube. You will have to enable the so-called windowless mode for your Silverlight app then (otherwise, you won't be able to display any kind of HTML on top of your app).

Cheers, Alex