clickonce for a brief shining moment was the closest we ever got to being able to deploy an application like a webpage. I did run into a lot of issues with the

clickonce for a brief shining moment was the closest we ever got to being able to deploy an application like a webpage. I did run into a lot of issues with the store/winrt APIs where there were backdoors that the NTDev team used to work around all the limitations, but they would never publish them.