F. More Complex Example: Browser-Hosted XBAP Application

  1. One additional advantage of WPF is its ability to be hosted in the Internet Explorer browser, a technique known as an XAML Browser Application (XBAP). When the user clicks on a link pointing to an XBAP application, the code is downloaded locally using Click Once deployment and then runs in the user's browser. One of the most vivid examples of this capability is the British Library's publication of medieval manuscripts, online at http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/browserapp.xbap.

    Since WPF provides the capability of running in an XBAP, we also want our CAB and SCSF implementations to support that capability as well. It turns out not to be very hard to do. Martin Hoogendoorn (what is it with these double ...

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