July 2004 - Posts
The performance chapter of the Smart Client Architecture Guide has now been published: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/SCAG-CH08.asp?frame=true Now that all of the chapters have been published, you can download
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Put it on your calendar - an architecture webcast on using the Application Updater Block on August 12th at 11:00 AM PST. Here's the abstract: MSDN Architecture Webcast: Updater Application Block - Level 200 Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
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Another TechEd demo. This time its how to use a ‘task’ pattern to manage asynchronous background tasks and web service requests. This is a variation on my previous article which describes a simplified asynchronous call pattern for Windows
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In my Smart Client Architecture Principles session at TechEd I did a very simple demo which took a simple rich client application and made it work offline. I have received a number of requests for this code but the TechEd folks don’t seem to allow
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I spent the last two weeks in Europe, first at TechEd Europe in Amsterdam and then back home in the UK. To stay in touch with the goings-on back in Redmond, I used Outlook’s “RPC over HTTP” feature (side rant: I don’t know what
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