Jaime Rodriguez in the team put together a detailed view of the Client Profile a while back, which is a subset of assemblies already contained within .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. With all the noise about Silverlight, this hidden gem seemed to get lost in the mix. Its worth looking at this again. The Client Profile subset is focused on fulfilling the needs of Client applications and comes with a number of capabilities :-

  • Smaller framework deployment - ~28 MB client deployment package
  • Smaller, faster client deployment boot strapper
  • Client Application focused feature set including the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ClickOnce technologies, Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • Windows Communication Foundation

To get a lot more information about this, visit this post (http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2008/08/20/client-profile-explained.aspx)