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Great news for Silverlight adopters:  It looks like Silverlight 1.1 will have a SaveFileDialog.

"The good news is that we are planning on adding a SaveFileDialog() before the final release of Silverlight 1.1.", from Scott Guthrie's blog.

We were crossing our fingers for this feature.  See our previous post (Silverlight's niche, and its missing piece) on the subject.

With this small addition, you can write a web application that opens,  edits, and saves a file, without necessitating server intervention.  This opens up the possibility of replacing a variety of utilities with web-based counterparts which can enjoy active development.

Here are a few such applications which could make the jump to the browser (actual names concealed to protect these innocent applications):

Can you think of others?  Could you trust a web application to help with these tasks?