Assembly Caching in Silverlight 4 for Performance Gains

The smaller the XAP file, the quicker your application loads. Assembly caching in Silverlight 3 and 4 does exactly that. Let us understand what assembly caching is. By default, when you deploy a Silverlight application, all the dependant assemblies get deployed in a single .xap file. So let us say if you have an application that uses System.XML.Serialization, System.ServiceModel.Syndication etc,