What is the WPF browser application type project?

Question

When should one use the WPF browser application? What is the utility of this project type? When should a developer use this?

Answer 1

A WPF Browser application is an app that runs in-browser as an XBAP (Xaml Browser Application).

You can find a little more information on the uses and reasons to use XBAPs here.

This thread on MSDN might help also.

Answer 2

XBAP applications (if that is what you are refering to) require the client to have the .NET framework installed (as opposed to Silverlight that only requires the Silverlight plug-in)

This allows XBAP applications to use the entire functionality of the .NET framework which is much broader than Silverlight.