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I see a lot of XBAP related questions posted here without answer. I know that Silverlight and WPF (desktop) applications exists, but don't remember seen one XBAP product. Can anyone tell if XBAP is dead (no applications being developed/supported)? It would be nice if any XBAP developers could give their opinion.
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XBAPs have been "dead" for almost 10 years. If you're lucky, you might still be able to get your application to work in Internet Explorer, if all of your users trust your site and change their settings to allow it to run.
Edge does not support XBAP, and never will.
You cannot run xbap application directly with Google Chrome, but you can run it with chrome extension called IE Tab may this will help you.
Xbap is ideal for developing line of business apps for large companies. I used to work in that environment, and ensuring everyone had the correct version of an app was a nightmare.
Unfortunately xbap is late to the party. Most companies have solved this problem with existing technologies (SMS Installers, click once etc), also these companies aren't IT based and don't change/upgrade technologies unless they have to (the IT department I used to work in still use VS2003 and have no plans to upgrade).
So, given the glacial pace these departments adopt "new" technologies, and given their reluctance to change development practises, it could be another 5 or 10 years before they write and deploy an xbap application.
So rather than being dead, I think xbap has a limited audience of late adopters.
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