Convert IPA to XAP

What is IPA file?

[ ⏩ ] IPA file extension

What is XAP file?

The XAP file extension is a compressed container format developed by Microsoft Silverlight for storing application programs and files. The files of this type are created automatically when applications are built using Silverlight. It is served by the web server in a similar way to any other web page content. Technical Details XAP files are ZIP archives that contain a .DLL file (Dynamic Link Library). This DLL file contains all the c# code libraries, . [ ⏩ ] XAP file extension

How to convert the file from IPA to XAP?

To successfully convert the IPA file to XAP, you should install one of the applications from the list. After installing the software, open the program and select the file you want to convert (file-name.IPA). The next step is to select the target format from the list, in this case XAP (usually converters allow you to convert to several different formats, so check out their features - maybe one of the available formats will suit you more than XAP).

What is a file conversion?

A data conversion is normally an automated process to some extent. The effect of the operation of one program is automatically the input product of another application. If that does not happen we need to help the process a little bit and convert the file on our own, e.g. IPA to XAP. To obtain a matched structure of the data, it is necessary to use an appropriate converter.

Program for converting IPA files to XAP files is a kind of a "binary code translator" compensating for the differences in the code or translating it in such a way so that another application could use it. For us, as users, the visible change will be only another file extension. (After converting the file, it will be the extension XAP, while before this step we had the IPA file). For the programs, the difference is on a much higher level – either the application will be able to open a new XAP file, or not.

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