Ah, nice. Will have to remember that one. Of course you'll need elevated trust to be able to do that, but looks like a good solution. Thanks for sharing Miguel.
Chris On 5 October 2010 15:26, Miguel Madero <m...@miguelmadero.com> wrote: > Everyone, > > I remember a few months ago at an SDDN meeting we were talking about > options to start an OOB App like looking at the shortcuts in the start menu > or trying to guess based on the random paths that the app might get > installed on. I found a nice option. Essentially we use the 'origin' as the > key instead of trying to find the path to the xap. > > > From Tim Heuer > blog<http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/03/25/using-sllauncher-for-silent-install-silverlight-application.aspx> > > Automatically Launching the App > > So what if you wanted to also automatically launch the app after installing > (i.e., the CD/DVD ‘autorun’ scenario). You again would use sllauncher.exe > to do this for you *after you’ve installed the app*. Using our same > sample above here would be the command: > > 1: "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe" > > 2: /emulate:"Silverface.xap" > > 3: > /origin:"http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/ClientBin/Silverface.xap"; > > 4: /overwrite > > Notice the *emulate* command. This is the launcher. Now you’ll notice > that this isn’t the same command-line options if you looked at an installed > applications’ created shortcuts. Because the folder where the XAP gets > installed is pretty random, we use the origin as the hint to the > sllauncher.exe program to find the right app for us and start it up. I’ve > found that using /overwrite will also give a more consistent behavior. > > > > > -- > Miguel A. Madero Reyes > www.miguelmadero.com (blog) > m...@miguelmadero.com > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > >
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