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Updated: 9/4/2002; 2:04:58 PM.

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Monday, August 05, 2002

Tim Ewald's Spoutlet. My friend, the author of Transactional COM+ and the editor of the XML/Web Services section on MSDN online, has an RSS feed. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]
10:39:47 PM

WinForms Over the Web. I did a talk at the local Portland Area .NET User's Group [1] on zero-setup deployment of WinForms applications over the web, including versioning, caching, optimization, debugging and security. This talk is also an excerpt from DevelopMentor's Essential WinForms course [2], which I highly recommend (although I'm hardly unbiased : ).

[1] http://www.padnug.org
[2] http://develop.com/dm/course.asp?id=131 [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]

This is great stuff Chris, as I was just having a discussion with Paresh Suthar the other day on web based applications and their advantages. Paresh had a concern about the lack of richness in web or IE interfaces compared to WinForms. I see a lot of IT clients though where the zero client install (nothing to install locally, no registry settings( and having one browser interface is much easier for IT staff to deploy and support. The richness of WebForms is quite appealing as well, however not as good as WinForms. This seems like a good combination (WinForms over the Web) to address the issues while still keeping the versioning, fast deployment, etc of the web model ( I think).

4:50:25 PM

.Net enters formative years. Microsoft?s Web services strategy hinges on success of .Net Server [InfoWorld: Top News]
10:49:48 AM

I have begun to gather some notes and thoughts on my .NET adventures - here is my first document that talks about COM connection points and .NET. Please note that it is a work in progress. [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog]

Paresh starts to talk about some of the specifics that led us to ask Is Com Interop Fundamentally Flawed? These should be read together. People starting on the COM Interop route have a lot to face. Although the textbook example is simple in theory, for almost all production COM applications there will be significant obstacles and trouble. I am starting to give a series of User Group presentations, the first of which is this week.

10:47:17 AM