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by Ididntdothis 2214 days ago
Really ? Maybe this was an option but I thought Silverlight was generally sandboxed. ActiveX could do native though
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rogihee 2214 days ago
Yup, really! I had a USB-to-Serial FTDI 232R with an actual device running in Silverlight back in 2012-ish. Just made a demo, but it worked.
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Ididntdothis 2214 days ago
Was that Silverlight on the desktop or in the browser? For a while Silverlight was the recommended desktop UI toolkit until it wasn’t a little later.
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