Silverlight 3’s New Assembly Caching
One of the overarching goals when designing a Silverlight application is to minimize the size of the XAP file. The smaller the XAP file, the faster the application loads. In Silverlight 2, one way to prevent external BCL assemblies such as System.Xml.Linq.dll from swelling the XAP file was to delay-load them, as described in this blog…