Reduce your XAP file size in seconds

October 31, 2008

Want to make your Silverlight XAP packages smaller? It couldn’t be easier!

Extract the XAP file (rename to .ZIP and use any extractor). Then… re-compress it using a good ZIP tool, like WinRAR.

Third party zippers are far more efficient than the one built in to Visual Studio.

In my trial, I got a 280k file down to 220k!