Native Extensions 1.0 for Microsoft Silverlight

Developer's DescriptionBy MicrosoftMake select Windows 7 features easily available to Silverlight 4 OOB applications.While Silverlight 4 supports accessing COM automation components from elevated trust OOB applications, many Windows platform features are currently not available through COM automation. This makes them inaccessible to such Silverlight OOB apps. Native Extensions for Microsoft Silverlight(NESL) is an effort to incrementally build a library of components that expose select Windows 7 features through COM automation, making them easily available to Silverlight 4 OOB applications running with elevated trust.The current version of NESL provides access to Windows 7 features like Sensors, Portable Devices, Speech, or Taskbar. NESL is made up of a set of COM automation based runtime libraries, Silverlight wrapper libraries usable from Silverlight 4 OOB applications, sample applications with source, API documentation, and a developer's guide.