silverlight process on client side

i am a php developer, not knowing much about silverlight, i am working on a project which needs to process request on client browser, like post httprequests and process them, its a auto directory submitter, can it be done in silverlight application?

i want the user to open the silverlight application, which will submit the post request from client side, and also 开发者_开发百科process for success and failure.

is it possible?

please guide me.

thank you

When you run a silverlight application, you basically download a .xap file (with dlls inside). Those are executed on your machine. I'm no PHP expert but I seem to recall that PHP is executed server-side - so now you know the difference.

In order to communicate with the server you can use one of the popular methods :

• use a WCF Webservice
• use a WCF Ria WebService
• use a WCF REST Webservice
• use Sockets

I'm not sure but I think that using a WebClient object is also possible with a POST verb (you'd need to look it up though).

You can access silverlight.net's learning section for some good videos about using WCF services or hand-on labs. I'd also recommend Matthew McDonald's Pro Silverlight (3 or 4) books, those have some good socket examples.

Hope that helps.

Regards