If you’ve been programming in Silverlight for long, you may have noticed the project setting “Reduce XAP size by using application library caching” in you Silverlight project’s settings.  You may have even checked it on to see what happens.

If you did try it, most likely nothing happened.  This is because there are a few simple prerequisite steps you have to take in order to take advantage of application library caching. 

In this blog post, I’ll step you through those set up steps.  But first, why would you want to use application library caching?

Why Use Application Library Caching?...