Launching a Silverlight App from a desktop app and vice versa

I have been asked to investigate the possibility of launching our companies current desktop app from a silverlight app we may develop. Would it be possible to launch a desktop app from a silverlight app (both in browser and out of browser) and vice versa, i.e. launch the silverlight OOB app from the winforms desktop app? If so, how would I go about doing this?

If this is po开发者_开发问答ssible, I assume it would be possible to launch 3rd Party Applications as well?

In order to do this, you would need to install the application as an OOB application with elevated trust. In that scenario, you could use COM interop to get a shell and launch a process. If you want to launch another Silverlight application, look into SLLauncher.exe as that is the host that is used to launch OOB applications.