XBAP Converter

Extract text from XBAP files

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How to extract text from your XBAP file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XBAP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert XBAP to another file type

To convert your XBAP file to another format, you need Visual_Studio or other Developer software.

Convert a file to XBAP

To convert other file formats to the "ClickOnce Manifest" file type, you need software like Visual_Studio or a similar tool.

About XBAP files

A .XBAP file is a deployment manifest for XAML Browser Applications, a legacy technology designed to run rich Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) apps inside web browsers like Internet Explorer. Think of it as a set of instructions (written in XML) that tells a browser how to download, launch, and sandbox a specific .NET application.

Users typically encounter friction with these files today because modern browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox) have completely dropped support for the underlying NPAPI plugins and security models required to run them. The format is effectively obsolete for end-users. Furthermore, because XBAP files function as executables in a partial-trust sandbox, they are often flagged by email filters and security software as potential threats.

Pragmatic Conversion Targets:

For Inspection & Debugging (Target: .XML / .TXT): Since the file is actually text-based XML, the most practical "conversion" is to treat it as a text file. This allows developers to read the deployment parameters, version numbers, and dependency links.
For Documentation (Target: .PDF): Convert the text content to PDF to archive the application's configuration settings before decommissioning the legacy system.
For Migration (Target: HTML5 / Blazor): You cannot directly convert a compiled .XBAP file to a modern web app. However, developers use the manifest to locate the original source code, which must then be rewritten using modern frameworks like Microsoft Blazor or converted using migration tools like CSHTML5.

Convert.Guru analyzes your XBAP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted IPOD, BIN and PLX files.

FAQ

If you want to convert XBAP file to EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, RUN, SH, BAT, CMD or COM, you can use Visual_Studio or similar software from the "WPF Deployment Manifest" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to XBAP, try Visual_Studio or another comparable tool in the "WPF Deployment Manifest" category.

The XBAP Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our XBAP converter.