ComAutomationFactory Class

The Silverlight-based application plays the role of an Automation client and can directly access the programming model and services exposed by the Automation server.

To access an Automation server, you should first check the IsAvailable property. Then, you can use the CreateObject or GetObject method to retrieve a late-bound reference to the Automation server. To use the reference as a late-bound object, you must assign it to a variable of type Object in Visual Basic and type dynamic in C#.

For more information about Automation, see Automation.

The following example demonstrates how to use this class.

dynamic outlook = 
    ComAutomationFactory.CreateObject("Outlook.Application");
dynamic mailItem = outlook.CreateItem(0);
mailItem.To = "johndoe";
mailItem.Subject = "Silverlight 4 Automation Test";
mailItem.HTMLBody = "<P>test message</P>";
mailItem.Display();

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

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