Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Brief Overview of WPF Browser Applications

Since the first version of WPF, developers have been allowed to build applications that can run within a web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. This kind of application is named WPF Browser Applications (formerly known as Xaml Browser Applications) or XBAP. Several differences exist between a client application and an XBAP; first, Browser Applications can only be executed online (from the Internet or an intranet). Second, they are executed with the limitations of the Internet Zone of the .NET Framework’s Code Access Security rules. Because of this, Browser Applications cannot perform several tasks. The main advantage is instead that, keeping in mind the previously mentioned ...