Can you build an entire application in Silverlight?

Question

Is it possible to build a good medium to full sized application using just silverlight as a host?

A few things that would be needed: - dynamic pages (one silverlight "screen" can switch between screens, like a normal app. - similar to a java applet which launches from the browser

I see that Telerik sells RadControls for WPF...but this is only useful (to me) if Silverlight can be a rich client platform through the web.

Answer 1

Although still a somewhat immature platform, Silverlight 2.0 supports many of the features that I would expect from a platform needed to create full sized applications.

• Data access through web services and local data/object query support with Linq
• Many feature rich controls such as datagrid, treeview, etc
• A very usable subset of the CLR (common language runtime)
• Access to restricted local storage on the client machine
• It is cross platform
• There are already some great add-ons, like Telerik and the Silverlight Control Toolkit

For your specific scenario, Microsoft has published a tutorial on Multi-page Applications