Types of Smart Clients Applications

Smart clients vary greatly in design and implementation, both in application requirements and in the number of scenarios and environments in which they can be used. Smart clients therefore can take many different forms and styles. These forms can be divided into three broad categories according to the platform that the smart client application is targeting:

• Windows smart client applications
• Office smart client applications
• Mobile smart client applications

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Smart Client – figure out the design challenges and the solutions.

Smart clients are easily deployed and managed client applications that provide an adaptive, responsive and rich interactive experience by leveraging local resources and intelligently connecting to distributed data sources

To fully understand how smart clients combine the benefits of rich clients and thin clients, it is useful to examine the history and underlying principles behind the rich and thin client application models, and review some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with each.

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Microsoft released ASP.NET 3.5 on November 19, 2007. Along with it, was released Visual Studio 2008. In this version Microsoft enhanced features of .NET Framework Version 3.0 and add some new too. Now we will take a look at new and enhanced features in the .NET Framework version 3.5. The which get updated or added by Microsoft are:

• .NET Compact Framework
• ASP.NET
• Add-Ins and Extensibility
• Common Language Runtime
• Cryptography
• Networking
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Windows Forms
• LINQ
• Expression Trees
• Programming Languages

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The Microsoft .NET Framework is enrich lots of features that makes it a milestone in the world of software technology. And the main Microsoft .NET Framework includs:

• Support for Components
• Language Integration
• Language Independency
• Common Runtime Engine
• Base Class Library
• Application Interoperation across the Web
• Simplified Development and Deployment
• Improved Reliability
• Portability
• Greater Security.

Here we see all feature of Microsoft .NET Framework

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Microsoft started development on the .NET Framework in the late 1990s originally under the name of Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS). By late 2000 the first beta versions of .NET 1.0 were released.

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