Occasionally Connected Smart Clients
Users want their apps to work and want their data to be available, even if the network isn't.
VSLive! San Francisco, January 31, 2006
 Watch the video of the session! (Running time: 1 hour, 12 minutes)
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Steve Lasker
Microsoft VB Team
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Many developers assume that wireless will be everywhere, enabling applications to communicate with centrally located servers regardless of the user's location. Any developer who has actually tried deploying connected applications knows that this is far from reality. Users want their applications to work and want their data to be available, even if the network isn't.
Steve Lasker takes you through the various options for developing Occasionally Connected Smart Clients that operate in an offline mode as well as online. He covers how to use VS 2005's ClickOnce to deploy your smart client, how to sync technologies using SQL Mobile for Windows Mobile devices, and how to use SOA in the form of WSE and Indigo to loosely-couple your synchronization logic in the smart client and reconciliation server.
About the Speaker
Steve Lasker is a program manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft. He is responsible for many of the data design-time features in Visual Studio. Steve's team owns the Typed DataSet designer, the Data Wizards, and the new Data Sources window. Check out the team's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/.
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