In silverlight, the silverlight app runs completely in the context of the browser. The only communication allowed in a normal, internet deployed silverlight app is via services.
Silverlight can't host services, even in-proc, at least not as far as I'm aware. Your service will be hosted in IIS alongside the ASP.NET application which probably hosts your Silverlight tag.
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