Recently I had to deal with targeting an XBAP application that had some Windows Forms controls.
The problem is that those controls can only be used in a trusted environment. If you try to debug an XBAP with some Windows Forms Controls you will get an exception like:
Message: Cannot create instance of 'Page1' defined in assembly 'XBAPWithWinForms, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Error in markup file 'Page1.xaml' Line 1 Position 7.
It took me a while to found a solution, and it was thru Scott Landford Blog that I found a way around.
In short what he recommends to do is:
Change your settings to:
Start Action->Start external program = %windir%system32\PresentationHost.exe
In my case (and the case of most people that is: c:\windows\system32\PresentationHost.exe)
Start Options->Command line arguments = -debug "c:\projects\myproject\bin\debug\MyProject.xbap" -debugSecurityZoneUrl "http://localhost:2022"
Copy the value from the Start URL after the –debug argument
Very import for using WinForms components you must run in FULL TRUST
Here is some XBAP code using a WinForms WebBrowser. They designer does not like it a lot but it works:
XBAPWithWinforms.zip