title: Silverlight 4 and TCP Sockets
body: <p>Most of the software we develop has to communicate with hardware devices in the local network using TCP/IP, UDP/IP or serial ports. This is probably the only reason we still target WPF instead of Silverlight for our UI.</p>
  
  <p>Socket support in Silverlight 2/3 is poor at best and way to limited.
  I've read the updated desktop mode in Silverlight 4 allows for more interaction with the
  system and less restrictions, but I'm wondering if this also means we'll be able
  to create TCP/IP (or UDP/IP) connections with devices in the local network without
  all of the silly restrictions (such as the port range and the policy file).</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody have more details? </p>