Microsoft’s Message: Smart Clients
At VSLive, emphasis on .NET clients, Tablets, Avalon, Indigo
March 1, 2005 —
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SAN FRANCISCO — At this winter’s VSLive conference, held here in early February, Microsoft’s core message was about the importance of so-called “smart clients.” That is, that developers should build server-side applications that can operate through a browser using ASP.NET 2.0—but if the server detects that the client is a Windows box with the .NET Framework installed, developers should push down a Windows Forms client application instead.
VSLive is a Windows-specific developer conference from Fawcette Technical Publications.
S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, described smart clients as bringing together the best attributes of thin clients, which operate solely through a browser, and rich clients executing binaries on the local machine. The smart clients would combine local resources, if available, with network-attached distributed data sources, such as on an enterprise LAN, and offer offline and online capabilities.
“If you want to take the low total cost of ownership [and] the ease of deployment ability from the Web client, and combine it with the rich user experience, the online/offline capability and the ability to leverage local computing resources,” Somasegar said, “you have a new breed of client software, which we call smart client.”
Smart clients are a way of envisioning two-tiered or three-tied development that leverages the .NET Framework and in some cases, Microsoft Office. However, there’s no specific set of technologies that enable smart-client development, and Microsoft wasn’t promoting any products or other initiatives around them.
In other news, Microsoft has released a Tablet PC Game SDK created jointly with 3Leaf Development. Somasegar also promoted a set of ink controls from Agilix, called InfiNotes, which developers can use to embed rich note-taking capabilities into Windows Forms and Web Forms applications. A version of the InfiNotes controls is available for deployment at no cost.
Microsoft also announced a Connected Systems Business Kit, a collection of sample apps and white papers for implementing service-oriented architectures using existing .NET technologies and products, and the Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library, a set of reusable building blocks for large-scale application projects. Those are both offered at no charge.
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