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HttpWebRequest is an abstract class in Silverlight. BrowserHttpWebRequest contains the implementation.
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Thanks for all the feedback!
Socket support is definitely considered for the upcoming milestones. I will forward this thread along to the right development team..
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I believe IIS7 associates .dll with application/x-msdownload by default and this just works on my machine.
What is the error you are getting? Can you confirm the MIME mappings for your .dll?
Hope this helps!
Gjergji
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Another option could be to use the System.Windows.Browser.HtmlTimer in System.Silverlight.dll.
HtmlTimer is not a high resolution timer (and you would get the warning below at compile time), but it might just do for what you need.
'System.Windows.Browser.HtmlTimer' is obsolete: 'This is not a high resolution timer and is not ...
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Correct, you need to instantiate BrowserHttpWebRequest for now (which only works against the origin host).
We are investigating ways to rationalize the networking classes further in a future milestone (probably by reintroducing a Create() method in HttpWebRequest).
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Silverlight is currently supported only in the browser.
Does your desktop application need to run cross platform? If not, WPF/.Net framework 3.0 could be option worth considering..