As I listened to Bill Gates speak at the Office Developer's Conference in
Redmond last week, I couldn't help but think how far Microsoft has come in
terms of developer access to the Office Suite of products and how the Smart
Client Revolution was in full force.
I started my "Smart Client Jihad" in May of 2003 in my presentation at the
European launch of Visual Studio .NET. It seems like yesterday in some
respects and I'm shocked that it was almost three years ago as I have spoken
and written on Smart Client technologies over a hundred times since.
Honestly, helping to boldly predict the Smart Client Revolution back then was
a bit of a stretch for those of us involved and I most certainly could see a
few raised eyebrows when talking to developer audiences about it. At the... (more)
This article covers building .NET applications in Whidbey and manifesting
them in Word and Excel documents. This is accomplished with Visual Studio
2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005).
If you're like many developers, you wonder why you'd build a .NET application
to manifest its user interface in a Microsoft Office application like Excel
or Word.
I was the same way when... (more)
Paul Flessner, Sr. VP, Server Applications, gave his keynote entitled
“Getting Ready for Connected Systems” at Tech·Ed 2005 in
Orlando, FL today. Embodied in the keynote were a number of new product
announcements and a handful of powerful and entertaining demos.
The huge announcement of the day was that SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio
2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 will launch th... (more)
In May of 2003 Microsoft asked me to do a keynote-like session at the Visual
Studio.NET launch event in Oslo, a trip I just couldn't pass up. The problem
was that I had no idea what a smart client application was. I had to quickly
get smart on smart client applications. Before I go through the attributes of
what a smart client is, let me tell you that back then no one could really
agree ... (more)
In May of 2003 Microsoft asked me to do a keynote-like session at the Visual
Studio.NET launch event in Oslo, a trip I just couldn't pass up. The problem
was that I had no idea what a smart client application was. So, I had to
quickly get smart on smart client applications. Before I go through the
attributes of what a smart client is, let me tell you that back then no one
could really ag... (more)
Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy, a software and network engineering firm and a Microsoft Partner focused on solutions built in .NET. He has worked on and with product teams at Microsoft for many years, has coauthored several books, and is a frequent conference speaker.
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