What is Silverlight Application Library Caching?
What is Silverlight Application Library Caching? I was just working with one Silverlight application that has too many 3rd party assemblies (Excel, theme, charts etc). Also it was taking long time while downloading first time. Obviously, this is because of large XAP size. So, I thought to divide entire application in multiple projects which will create multiple XAP’s and then use it by on demand load. But, I have used more third party dll’s. In this case it is too hectic to store them on separate XAP and then load it on demand. Then, I came to know about new concept (for me) about “ Application Library Caching” So, What is Assembly caching? We all know about the on demand download of XAP file. To do this, we need to write code for downloading the external xap files using WebClient. Application Library caching does the similar thing for you very easily. Suppose, if you have a bigger application and used a huge 3rd party libraries, this easy step will help you make a separate ...