How to Determine How Many Users Installed Your Silverlight (out-of-browser) Application

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:58 Written by Andrew Ivanov Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:00

If you have created a Silverlight out-of-browser application, you will want to know how many users have installed it. In this article, I will tell you how I did this in one of my applications.

First, we need somewhere to store number of installed/uninstalled copies. To do this, create a table in the database and update the Entity Framework model. It may look like the image below.

InDateTime – datetime, PK
IsInstantInstalled – bit (1 – instant installed, 0 – instant uninstalled)