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Silverlight: is there a way to let the user open a file from isolated storage?

I want to allow the user to open files in their client applications through Silverlight. I would like this to work similarly to WebDAV, in the sense that they could read / write the file back to Silverlight isolated storage ...

Is it possible to create a file: // link to an isolated repository file? Is there a uri schema that is defined for silverlight in a browser with the silverlight plugin?

Am I completely nuts?

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It looks like you can do it and there is a tutorial on it here . The tutorial only deals with how to use isolated storage, but an example is to open files on the user's system and store them in isolated storage. :)



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What you are asking for is unfortunately not directly supported today. However, with the release of Silverlight 3 last month, you will find that there is now a FileSaveDialog.

Combined with the isolated storage FileOpenDialog and FileSaveDialog, you have several options for creating a system to serve files to your users and receive their updates.



However, they will need to initiate open and save - the actual isolated paths to the repository file are quite difficult to find and it is not recommended to allow users to directly access them.

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