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Dmitry Borovsky
Dmitry Borovsky

Reputation: 558

Why can't I create a assembly for silverlight and usual .NET?

Why can't I create a assembly for silverlight and usual .NET?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 131

Answers (2)

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1499770

I believe you can do this as of Silverlight 4, but not on earlier versions. MSDN has an article going into more details.

Prior to this, assembly portability hadn't been baked into .NET, so there was no set of common assemblies which could be targeted from both Silverlight and the desktop framework. At least, that's the way I read the above article...

Upvotes: 2

codekaizen
codekaizen

Reputation: 27419

The reason is that Silverlight uses a parallel implementation of the CLR (known as CoreCLR). The core libraries used to implement the runtime are different between Silverlight and .Net, even though they expose roughly the same services and conform to the same specifications.

Here is a nice article which explores CoreCLR in depth: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc721609.aspx

Upvotes: 2

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