Source code for this article is available at Silverlight Remote Control Source Code
Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight is a collection of COM automation based runtime libraries and Silverlight libraries which allow elevated trusted out of browser applications to utilize windows platform feature. For example you can build applications which use Sensor API, Speech API, react to remote control, integrate with windows 7 taskbar or listen to windows messages sent to the host window. In this post I will build a simple slideshow application to demonstrate some of the capabilities of the library.