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Smart Client in focus again

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Good to see that Soma's keynote at VSLive! San Francisco brings the concept of 'smart client' back in focus. This is something I am personally passionate about and it is also the theme of this blog. Here is Soma's blog post on the topic and you can view the keynote video here.

Still not sure what a smart client is as opposed to a simple client application or a 'rich client'? I don't blame you - there are too many of these terms floating around. Believe it or not, 'smart client' isn't just a fancy new term for the same old thing - it is indeed a new kind of application model that attempts to combine the best of the client and web worlds. Check out the Smart Client Developer Center on MSDN to understand exactly what smart client means.

With features like ClickOnce and Client Settings, not to mention the very significant advances in Windows Forms, .NET Framework 2.0 is going to be a great platform for smart client application development!

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  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2005
    If Smart Clients were in focus again, the SQL Server 2005 Beta team would not be making a mess of the SSE installer thus preventing Smart Client functionality from working by using a bootstrapping system that prevents us from deterministically installing it based on the profile of the user (directly connected, or remote (sometimes connected)).

    And the worst part is that they think this is acceptable.