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Monday, August 11, 2008 11:15 AM

RTM of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Client App Deployment)

I wanted to thank all the ISV's, VAR's, and SI's I have spoken with and those who have replied to my requests for soliciting feedback on Client Application Development (e.g., Software as a Service (SaaS) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) ). This release
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:04 PM

Microsoft announcement of Silverlight 2 (Devices/RIA/Client)

Yesterday, Microsoft announced a significant technology advancement in Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform development. This announcement was significant on many levels from my perspective. It solidifies (beyond SL 1) the ability to use .Net to develop
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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:13 PM

Software as a Service (SaaS) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

I have been spending the last few months doing research on ISV/VAR/SI applications. As part of my research, I have been looking into trends and discussing with customers where our industry may, is, or should be headed. I would love to hear your thoughts
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Monday, June 13, 2005 7:30 PM

Tech-Ed, Smart Client, VSTO, and Outlook Addin's

I want to appologize for the delay in posting Blogs, but we have been very busy on getting Whidbey out the door and adding a few new features like Smart tags as well as Outlook Addin's. Tech-Ed WebCasts for Smart Client as well as other interesting sessions.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:01 PM

Client definitions

Thin Clients ยท Network dependency - required o A thin client relies heavily on the ability to connect to the Intranet and/or the Internet in order to retrieve and display data to the user. Data is almost exclusively stored in a central repository and
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:10 PM

In the News

Office Developer Conference The first annual Office Developer Conference was held in Redmond, Washington last week and it was clear from the BillG keynote that Office is becoming the premier Smart Client platform. I counted at least 4 references from
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:07 AM

Smart Client Scenario

From March 1993 through October 1994, I was consulting to the state of Washington , Department of Labor and Industries. During this period I worked on a project to build the first Windows Client-Server application. This project was used to prove out the
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Friday, December 10, 2004 4:45 PM

Thin Clients - Web clients

The late 1990's saw growth in the Internet through the utilization of an underutilized network infrastructure and the browser wars. PC's were everywhere and they contained an application Host (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, etc..) for running code (script). Corporate
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Friday, December 10, 2004 3:54 PM

Taking advantage of the distribution of power - Rich Clients

The superior usability of the PC with its mouse for input and the ability to quickly relay information in a language neutral manner via a graphical user interface became the client platform with which we could develop rich applications. These applications
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Friday, December 10, 2004 3:38 PM

Let's get personal

Around the late 1980's Personal Computers (PC's) were starting to provide functionality suited to individual user usages like word processing and spreadsheet functionality. This brought processing and data storage down to the user and away from the central
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Friday, December 10, 2004 3:31 PM

We get smarter as we evolve

Back in 1984 I was attending college and the classes reflected the current computing architecture. I took Assembly, Cobol, CICS, and DL1. Assembly and Cobol where the languages of choice for mainframe applications. Cobol was a higher level language and
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Thursday, December 09, 2004 7:05 PM

Introduction

The idea of what constitutes a Smart Client Application and the architecture to support this model very much chronicles the evolution of my career. So I decided to blog about this subject in the hopes of sharing, debating, and contributing to this evolution.
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