Is aspose support for silverlight?

Hi,This is Madhan kumar and wou ld like to purchage Aspose slides for dotnet before doing that i have some questions

Hi Madhan Kumar,

Thanks for showing your interest in Aspose.Slides.

I regret to share that Aspose.Slides doesn’t support Silverlight at the moment. Actually, Silverlight applications can’t reference .NET assemblies. Silverlight uses different CLR to the rest of .NET, known as the CoreCLR. The CoreCLR is a stripped down version containing only the stuff deemed necessary by the Silverlight team.

There is a good way that described here but Aspose.Slides uses a lot of functionality that isn’t available on Silverlight platform. Silverlight is meant to run in a “sandbox” whereby many the unsafe features such as direct access to the file system are not allowed. Silverlight is missing core features and types such as: ArrayList, Hashtable, SortedList, System.ICloneable, System.Drawing (GDI+), BinarySerializer and the [Serializable] attribute that are used in Asposoe.Slides.

For your kind reference, please visit the following links as well:

  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4912306/add-refrence-problem-in-silverlight
  • http://www.netfxharmonics.com/2008/12/Reusing-NET-Assemblies-in-Silverlight
  • http://biofractal.blogspot.com/2009/03/convert-dotnet-assemblies-to.html
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6693198/how-do-i-add-a-reference-to-an-assembly-that-wasnt-built-with-the-silverlight-r

However, the good news is that we are working over providing support for Silverlight in Aspose.Slides for .NET and an issue with ID SLIDESNET-15846 has already been created in our issue tracking system to provided the feature. The issue is in progress and as soon as the feature will be available, we will be honored to share the feedback with you.

Many Thanks,