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How to run WPF XBAP app on my intranet?

I have a Debian server with a standart Apache and a MySQL. I will host there my xbap app. I want to create a application that access that MySQL and can be seen in my intranet in firefox. It's possible? How? And about the trust not granted message? Suggestions will be great. Thankz! ...

How to know if XBAP application is idle

Hi, How can I get to know if a XBAP application is idle ie. its not been used by an user for some specific time duration, so that I can logoff the session? Thanks Arvind ...

How can I close the browser from an XBAP?

I am using an XBAP application in full trust. I need to close the browser hosting the XBAP when I click a button. How can I achieve this? Application.Currenty.ShutDown() only closes the application, leaving the browser blank. ...

Limitations and strength of Xbap and Wpf applications

Hi I am about to start a new application. I am bit confused on deciding on wpf or xbap application. I need a list of limitations and advantages of Xbap and Wpf independently. Looking into these pros/cons, and my requirements, I can take a call. ...

Looking to build a WPF XBap with full trust, can a purchased certificate get past some of the security issues?

We are developing an application that needs to talk to some hardware (serial port) on the machine, and most of what we do is WPF and .net, so an xbap seems logical. My concern is with the certifcates. I have seen a bunch of people showing how to create and self sign applications, but then the user is required to install that to their m...

XBAP with FireFox and Windows 7

Firefox depends on an extension and plugin installed by the .NET 3.5 installer to run XBAPs. Unfortunately, in Windows 7 the .NET 3.5 runtime is already installed. Does anyone know how to get a hold of these plugins/extensions so you can actually deploy XBAPs to FireFox on Windows 7? ...

Deploying xbap in a full trust mode

I have xbap which needs to run on a full trust mode because my application needs to upload a file from the client machine to process. I have to provide a installation steps to install. If i do it as a click one instillation, do i still get a security error? If so what is the best way to resolve it? If i install it in remote server, I sa...

Xbap application: How can I prompt user to confirm exit when the user close the browser or browser tab?

application_exit and session_ending event in app.xaml cannot help. Is there any way to achieve this? ...

Can I use an XBAP in a ASP.NET Application?

The problem I started with is that I want to display in an ASP.NET application a 3D model. First of all I thought of Silverlight, but Silverlight 3 does not support 3D rendering. WPF does, so the next step was creating a demo for an WPF browser application. The 3D surface was rendered, but how can I include it in the APS.NET applicat...

How to specify a browser to use for debugging in Visual C# 2008 Express?

With recent events with vulnerability found in WPF browser plugin and Firefox forcing a block on it, I can't seem to find a setting in Visual C# 2008 Express Edition that would allow me to run/debug my XBAP project in Internet Explorer without having to switch my default browser to IE. Am I missing something here? ...

CruiseControl.NET service failing to build due to MSBuild ResolveKeySource error, despite certificate being imported

We just had an XBAP/WBA project added to our build server. It uses a PFX file for signing. I imported the PFX file to the CruiseControl.NET service certificate store, and can see it in the certificate store for the service. Yet we are still seeing an exception thrown by ResoveKeySource: c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Micros...

Integrating XBAP into ASP.NET web application, continuous integration server and release process

Greetings, I'm after advice from those who have implemented an WPF Web Based Application or XAML Browser Application (XBAP) which requires full trust, into a continuous integration server such as CruiseControl.NET, as well as their normal build/release process. Specifically, I'm interested in: Best practice for signing an XBAP project...

XBAP usage and maturity issues

we're considering migrating our UI to XBAP. we've chosen XBAP despite knowing the clients must have .net pre-installed, since we're not targeting the masses but rather IT professionals in the corporate environment, and it's a way to preserve our investment (in a WPF based UI in a client-server architecture) and enjoy web deployment. how...

Small Problem with WPF XBAP

Sometimes my XBAP application gives this error. Did someone else had this problem? System.InvalidOperationException: No further operations are possible with this instance. This is on https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=496484 Complete stack System.InvalidOperationException: No further ope...

XBAP uses unmanaged c++ COM server, Side by side deployment issue

Hi I'm facing a the following situation: I created a simple full trust XBAP application that refers to unmanaged c++ COM server (isolated). After deployment I expect that XBAP application will discover the COM server dll that is placed in the same directory, but it is not. I'm getting the following error: Exception has been thrown by ...

x86 TargetPlatform with XBAPs

I've got a XAML Browser Hosted Application (XBAP) project that has a dependency on another project that is x86 only. All sorts of hell breaks loose at runtime (with respect to grabbing the DLLs) if I leave the target platform as "Any CPU". However, if I switch the XBAP project to target x86, I get the following compile time error: ...

How do i enable the firefox xbap plugin

Firefox recently blacklisted the plugin that allows xbaps to work in firefox This is a huge problem for me as one of my companies enterprise products is a web application that makes use of an xbap and must work in firefox. Does anyone know if there is an update to the blacklisted plugin or if it is possible to overwrite the blacklist a...

Manual XBAP publishing.

I found a method to manually publish a regular WPF Application, but i need the same instructions for a WPF Browser app instead. Here is the regular WPF App howto: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc3tc5xx%28VS.80%29.aspx . If anyone knows what changes I need to make to my mage commands to make it work for XBAP please let me know...

XBAPs and MouseWheel events

I've got an XBAP hosted in FireFox, which works great. However, I cannot detect MouseWheel events ever! I'm guessing that FireFox is consuming them and not passing them down to the hosted app. Any ideas on how to work around this? ...

Logging when application is running as XBAP?

Anybody here has actually implemented any logging strategy when application is running as XBAP ? Any suggestion (as code) as to how to implement a simple strategy base on your experience. My app in desktop mode actually logs to a log file (rolling log) using integrated asop log4net implementation but in xbap I can't log cause it stores ...