Jack Gudenkauf (JackG) WebLog

I want to appologize for the delay in posting Blogs, but we have been very busy on getting Whidbey out the door and adding a few new features like Smart tags as well as Outlook Addin's. Tech-Ed WebCasts for Smart Client as well as other interesting...

Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 is now available. You may have heard about the code name "Whidbey", which is used to refer to the Visual Studio 2005 tools as well as the .Net CLR. Where did this naming convention come from, you ask? Well, the previous version...

I mentioned the Office Developer Conference in a previous post due to its relevance to Smart Client applications. In the Bill Gates keynote, you will find references to Office as a platform and a demo of the Visual Studio for Office 2005 (VSTO) product...

Thin Clients · Network dependency - required o A thin client relies heavily on the ability to connect to the Intranet and/or the Internet in order to retrieve and display data to the user. Data is almost exclusively stored in a central repository and...

Office Developer Conference The first annual Office Developer Conference was held in Redmond, Washington last week and it was clear from the BillG keynote that Office is becoming the premier Smart Client platform. I counted at least 4 references from...

From March 1993 through October 1994, I was consulting to the state of Washington , Department of Labor and Industries. During this period I worked on a project to build the first Windows Client-Server application. This project was used to prove out the...

The late 1990's saw growth in the Internet through the utilization of an underutilized network infrastructure and the browser wars. PC's were everywhere and they contained an application Host (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, etc..) for running code (script). Corporate...

The superior usability of the PC with its mouse for input and the ability to quickly relay information in a language neutral manner via a graphical user interface became the client platform with which we could develop rich applications. These applications...

Around the late 1980's Personal Computers (PC's) were starting to provide functionality suited to individual user usages like word processing and spreadsheet functionality. This brought processing and data storage down to the user and away from the central...

Back in 1984 I was attending college and the classes reflected the current computing architecture. I took Assembly, Cobol, CICS, and DL1. Assembly and Cobol where the languages of choice for mainframe applications. Cobol was a higher level language and...

The idea of what constitutes a Smart Client Application and the architecture to support this model very much chronicles the evolution of my career. So I decided to blog about this subject in the hopes of sharing, debating, and contributing to this evolution...