Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide Version 1.0 - patterns and pratices

This guide gives you prescriptive guidance on how to overcome architectural challenges and design issues when building smart client solutions. It also provides guidance on how to combine the benefits of traditional rich client applications with the manageability of thin client applications. This guide is intended for software architects and developers who are developing smart client applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework using Windows Forms technology.

What this guide covers :

• Determining if a smart client architecture is right for your application Handling data on the client
• Designing and building smart client applications that are occasionally connected to the network
• Designing and building secure smart client applications
• Deploying and updating smart client applications
• Optimizing performance of smart client applications

Who should read this guide :

• Application architects
• Business analysts and decision-makers
• Developers
• IT consultants
• System integrators

patterns & practices contain specific recommendations illustrating how to design, build, deploy, and operate architecturally sound solutions to challenging business and technical scenarios. The technical guidance is reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, and Product Support Services, and by partners and customers.

patterns & practices are:

• Proven-Based on field experience
• Authoritative-Offer the best advice available
• Accurate-Technically validated and tested
• Actionable-Provide the steps to success
• Relevant-Address a real world problem

Proven practices for predictable results