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Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps
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At the recent PDC, Scott Guthrie announced in his Silverlight 4 keynote that we had implemented a new feature, to enable developers to share certain assemblies between Silverlight and .NET. There are many differences between Silverlight and full .NET including WPF, and this new feature doesn’t solve those differences – in those cases, you’ll still need to compile your code twice. But in some cases, developers will write code that only uses features whose behavior is identical between Silverlight and full .NET, and in those cases, we want to enable that code to be shared. This post provides more detail on that sharing, and explains how developers can target it, and what the restrictions are.
Comments: Great news, now is possible to share assemblies between project created with the SL framework and those created using the standard version of the framework. It has some limitations of course, but is great to share libraries with entities, validations, ...