5.13. The Silverlight Downloader

Silverlight supports a special type of object that performs asynchronous downloading of content. This object is the Silverlight Downloader. This works similarly to XmlHttpRequest APIs, with which you may be familiar. Before you can use the downloader to make a request, you must create it with the Silverlight host object like so:

function root_Loaded(sender, args) {
  var host = sender.getHost();
  var downloader = host.createObject("downloader");
  ... // do something with the downloader
}