title: silverlight access to file path
body: <p>I have a Silverlight application and I <strong>need</strong> a way to find out the <strong>physical path</strong> for a selected file.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Note:</strong> I know about security restrictions that obtaining the path is prohibited in client.</p>
  
  <p>I have in mind a solution but I am not sure it works: silverlight app is running in a page together with an ActiveX component that is allowed to do restricted operations. The Silverlight app asks the ActiveX component to do the privileged operations and returns back the path.</p>
  
  <p>Is that a valid scenario or there is a simpler way?</p>