wpf/silverlight application to dvd

Question

How to convert a wpf/silverlight app so it will run on a dvd. We have wpf app which is used for learning purposes we would like to create dvd version of this app and give it to

Answer 1

This will not be possible. DVD navigation (on which interactive DVDs are built) are a completely different environment / framework / format to WPF or Silverlight.

WPF/Silverlight use XAML and the .Net framework, the DVD format uses a combination of motion menus and navigation controls to achieve interaction, all packaged in a format unique to DVDs and as different to WPF/Silverlight as oil is to cheese I'm afraid.

If, however, you want to distribute your WPF/Silverlight application on a data DVD for users to insert into their Windows PCs and run on their desktop, that will be very easy.

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DVD-Video players run a special virtual machine to run byte-code specifying how the navigation of a DVD-video disc should work. This site gives a detailed account of this format and how to program for it.

The bottom line is that if you want your WPF/Silverlight app to run on a DVD-Video disc on a consumer DVD-player, not on a Windows PC, you will need to completely rewrite it from scratch using this format.