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Big Boss
Big Boss

Reputation: 218

Can I include flash content inside a silverlight app?

I have a silverlight application, which requires charts with printing. As silverlight does not support printing, I was thinking of including some flash charts inside my application. I know it sounds weird.... But is it possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 967

Answers (5)

Gabriel Guimarães
Gabriel Guimarães

Reputation: 2744

Check out Silverlight 4 That has Printing Support, Its finally released, the charts can be built using the Silverlight Toolkit.

Check this Link (for printing): http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx#printing

Upvotes: 1

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Silverlight 3 beta is now available. It allows you to write your own codec.

From the what's new in silverlight 3 doc:

Extensible media format support: With the new Raw AV pipeline, Silverlight can easily support a wide variety of third-party codecs. Audio and video can be decoded outside the runtime and rendered in Silverlight, extending format support beyond the native codecs.

I think the problem with Silverlight natively supporting flash is copyright issues between adobe and microsoft, as far as i know.

Likely that someone will write a codec that you can just drop in to your app.

Upvotes: -1

KeithMahoney
KeithMahoney

Reputation: 3343

No, it is not possible to run flash content inside of Silverlight or vice-versa. However, it is possible to run both types of content on the same html page. You can even (I think) have them layered on top of each other using windowless controls. You can have them communicate via javascript. You could probably do something similar to solve the problem you are facing.

Upvotes: 3

BenMaddox
BenMaddox

Reputation: 1800

You may not run flash content within a Silverlight application. They use two different plug-ins that don't interact with each other in that way.

I'm answering the main question in the subject. I suggest another topic (if one doesn't already exist) for the printing issue.

Upvotes: 0

Shoban
Shoban

Reputation: 23016

Hey.. Check this .The second post talks about embedding flash in silverlight. Try asking in that thread.

But I doubt whether it possible because as grapefrult, in the comments, said they are cats and dogs ;-)

Upvotes: 1

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