In my sessions on smart clients the past weeks the ClickOnce seems to be the topic that generates the most questions. I'll try to clarify some of the issues here. Application Permissions and ClickOnce One of the main concerns people have is how a user knows what rights an application gets when it is...

I'm currently talking about Smart Clients around Norway and I've been focusing on the architectural aspects of Smart Client technology. Recently Clemens posted about much the same topic . For a long time Service Oriented Architecture has been sold as the final silver bullet by vendors and evangelists...

Yesterday I held three sessions at the quartely Microsoft Days ( Microsoftdagene ) event in Oslo. In three sessions we covered Smart Clients in the Service Oriented Architecture, todays technologystack, and the features of the upcoming technology stack from Microsoft with focus on VSTO 2005 and Windows...

Entering the new year my colleague Anders inspired me to join the crowd of good samaritans. A task postponed far too long. Suffering from severe cruft I formatted my box and started out with clean sheets. This gave me the opportunity to start developing with least privelige and also installing Cassini...

Anders dissects the testing features of Team System, and seems quite pleased with what he finds. The subject of testing private methods became quite a hot potatoe at James Newkirks BoF at TechEd this year. For me the whole point of writing tests is to verify the behaviour of the public interface of your...

I've been using the Microsoft ExceptionManagement ApplicationBlock and I spent some time creating a nice ExceptionXmlPublisher because the one described in the docs has some flaws. Using the xml publisher removes the need to run the EventLog installer to be able to create the eventlog. Having the exceptions...

I recently was asked to talk about the possibilities of implementing a WSRP consumer on the .NET platform. And suprisingly, it has very little to do with Web Services Routing Protocol. "Web Services for Remote Portlets" is the OASIS specification name and it's all about delivering presentation instead...

When working with Java at least one thing is pretty straight forward. You use packages and they have to map directly to directories on the harddrive. .NET is nicer and allows you to do whatever with sourcefiles, namespaces and project files. This can cause a real mess though, if you don't have a well...

I've been working with implementing a MVC pattern for a WinForms app that got unmanagable lately. I'm currently trying out the solution and it seems to have something going for it. Maybe all this is old news for the more hardcore winows programmers out there, but I posted my sample to GotDotNet and hope...

David Plummer, group vice president of Gartner Inc says: The .NET architecture won't be used to the best advantage in enterprise systems unless Microsoft places greater emphasis on educating developers on how to build service-oriented systems. Until it does, the result will be the proliferation of thousands...