Deploying Avalon Express Applications
Avalon Express
applications provide a model for deploying browser-based applications
securely. An Avalon Express application consists of a regular-looking
executable (plus any library dependencies), an application manifest
(with a .manifest extension), and an Express deployment manifest (with
a .xapp extension). You can browse to the .xapp file from any machine
with Internet Explorer and the WinFX Runtime installed, and Avalon will
dynamically download, cache and execute the application within a
browser-based security sandbox. But to enable this to work, you need to
first have configured IIS to serve the .xapp and .manifest files with
the correct MIME type handler (application/manifest and
application/x-ms-xapp respectively). We actually provide a script to do
this automatically, but it's perhaps buried rather too deeply in the
documentation for people to find it without guidance.
Author: Tim Sneath
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Deploying Avalon Express Applications