The results from our Smart Client survey show that deployment challenges are among the top concerns of developers and solution architects creating smart client solutions (76% of respondents claim this to be either very challenging or challenging). Microsoft...

Thanks for everybody answering the patterns & practices Smart Client Program survey we published a month ago. We received hundreds of very valuable responses and will publish summarized results very soon. The guidance we plan to produce this year...

Here's a VB version of the detection code that works (thanks to Jonathan Wanagel from PAG). The reason the one to one translation doesn't work is that VB tries to proactively instantiate the referenced types, instead of doing it lazily as C# does. So...