On my old XP computer, running an XBAP from Visual Studio would open it up in Google Chrome. I switched to Windows 7, and now running an XBAP downloads the file like it were
Got it... Firefox (and Chrome, since I'm using FF dlls to run XBAPs in Chrome) runs XBAPs by using a dll from the .Net 3.5 Installer, and since Windows 7 comes with 3.5 already installed, this dll isn't available
To fix this, I needed to copy the file
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Windows Presentation Foundation\NPWPF.dll
from an XP machine to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugins
(if FireFox folder doesn't exist, create it)
Also in case you're looking to do the same, I think this was the link I used to figure out what FF files I needed to copy to Chrome's installation directory:
The following libraries found in Mozilla Firefox instalation directory
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
have to be coppied to Chrome installation directory:
- js3250.dll
- mozcrt19.dll
- nspr4.dll
- nss3.dll
- nssutil3.dll
- plc4.dll
- plds4.dll
- smime3.dll
- sqlite3.dll
- ssl3.dll
- xpcom.dll
- xul.dll
Assumming Chrome is installed in the following directory, USER corresponds to your windows user.
C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application
MIME Type Extension
application/manifest .manifest
application/x-ms-xbap .xbap
application/octet-stream .deploy
application/x-ms-application .application
application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument .xps
application/xaml+xml .xaml
Maybe it is related with the file extentsions?