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 a ZIP or an EXE instead of opening it in the browser. The same thing happens in FireFox.
Does anyone know why I am suddenly downloading the file instead of opening it? And how I can fix it?
And yes, I know XBAPs are not meant to run on Chrome, but if you copy a bunch of FireFox dlls to the Google\Chrome\Application directory it runs just fine (steps here if anyone wants).
Even before I had that setup, it would still try and open an xbap in chrome and I could copy the URL to IE for testing. Now it downloads the file so I can’t even do that.
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
from an XP machine to
(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: