I sometimes forget that WPF is still not out of the oven. I talk and talk about WPF smart clients, when and where and why they make sense, how the developer and designer will be enabled with a new tool set to build next generation user experiences......

Xbap's are .NET 3.0 WPF smart client applications that are hosted by the browser – IE 6 or IE 7 only at this point. It’s an ugly name XBAP… pronounced x-bap. XBAP is actually the extension of the file that you navigate your browser to in order to launch...