Building applications for multiple platforms requires more consideration from developers than ever before. Find out how to make your apps ''smarter.'' Smart Cli•ent, n.1. Easily deployed and managed ...

Microsoft has released a set of guidance and code to help enterprise developers build smart-client user interfaces on the .Net Framework 2.0. The Redmond, Wash., software makers Composite UI ...

According to industry analysts, banks are poised to spend more than $550 million on branch renewal in 2004. Banks are adding new technology to their branches, with plans to significantly enhance ...

There is an interesting post today on Slashdot about native languages versus interpreted languages which run in virtual machines or use just-in-time compilers. The question posed was whether or not ...

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San Francisco — Three years after introducing Visual Studio .Net and the .Net Framework, Microsoft on Monday promoted the benefits of the developer tools and demonstrated some of the updates coming ...

Microsoft's Smart App Control used to be pointless, but it's about to become a lot more usable. Here's what's changing.

Part of Microsoft's .NET initiative, a smart client is a rich client application that is downloaded from a Web server via HTTP. When the program is launched again, the local copy is loaded and used as ...