Is it possible to include external DLLs in a silverlight project that was not created for Silverlight?

Question

We are trying to develop a deployment strategy for the internal tool that we are creating. This is a control that uses a set of third-party libraries to communicate with a specific type of server. Therefore, I have a class library that uses these libraries.

I was looking to deploy a silverlight application that uses our library, which in turn uses a set of third-party libraries. When I try to link to third-party libraries, I get that "the library cannot be referenced because it was not created as a Silverlight library."

The type of project I'm trying to create is a silverlight application, not a dll library or anything else. Is it possible to create a silverlight application using libraries created outside of Silverlight?

Answer 1

No. Silverlight cannot load DLLs compiled using desktops or the .Net Compact Framework .Net Runtime.