Earlier on I had written an app, BlogPadm which was fulltrust and the writer used Google Data API to write the content to Blogger.com. However, when you create an xbap version of it, a problem arises in that you cannot make WebRequests outside site of origin and hence, the xbap version of the above failed to take off. The workaround is to create a webservice at the site of origin so that the calls are forwarded. However, the focus of this app was to test cookies. So I hosted a blog server and had the blogwriter at the site of origin. So the flow is something like this: http://MainSite/Login.aspx à http://blogsite/blogwriter.xbap à http://blogsite/postentry.aspx The communication between the asp pages and the xbap is through cookies. Code for this application is attached. Note that this project makes use of servers and hence, the app won’t run on execution since the server code is now on the local machine. The Blog engine used is the BlogEngine.net which is an open source blog server. The
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