smartclient

has anyone worked on Smartclient

Has anyone worked on smartclient (the RIA platform provided by Isomorphic)? I want to know if any online material/books available on this RIA ...

pitfalls/gotchas of click-once/smart-client deployment in .NET

I have several .NET WinForms applications that I'm preparing to convert into a click-once/smart-client deployment scenario. I've read the isn't-this-great tutorials but want to ask if there are pitfalls or "gotchas" that I should be aware of. there are several minor apps used off and on, but the main app is in C#, runs 24/7, is quite la...

Can I create a desktop icon for a ClickOnce application?

I have read in some of the ClickOnce posts that ClickOnce does not allow you to create a desktop icon for you application. Is there any way around this? ...

Citrix - how to keep smartclient apps from re-downloading every time they are launched

Our company uses Citrix to remote into a terminal server for remote users to launch smart client apps within a virtual window on their machine. The problem is that smartclient apps are being downloaded each time the user launches them eventhough the version on the remote citrix server has not change. This is due to the user's profile b...

C# .Net exe doesn't close when PC is restarted, keeping the machine from restarting

We have a SmartClient built in C# that stubornly remains open when the PC its running on is being restarted. This halts the restart process unless the user first closes the SmartClient or there is some other manual intervention. This is causing problems when the infrastructure team remotely installs new software that requires a machine...

Autostart Smart Client application

Have a standard smart client application that we want to autostart when a user logs into their machine on our network. I've tried the following keys: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKCU\Software\Micrisoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKCU\Software\Micrisoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policy\Explorer\Run etc.... The star...

Smart clients easier to maintain than web apps?

I have been working on a project that has 2 interfaces - windows forms and web. Over the past 8 months, we have faced more issues with maintenance of our web apps (works in IE not in FF, ajax breaks in some weird ways that is not easy to debug... ) and so on. On the other hand, the winform app is easy to install. We have a xcopy version...

Smart Client Maximize a view in tab workspace

My question may not make sense but I have valid reason. We use .net smart client framework with CAB to develop window based application. We have a trend view (smart client view) which plots graph of live data. We use ProEssentials graph control for the same. Trend view is tabbed with a tab workspace. But the client want to maximize th...

What are the Approaches for updating Microsoft Expression Web Add-ins

I am working on an add-in for Microsoft Expression Web. We would like to check for an update each time that the users activate the add-in. Note that the add-in consists of a number of main assembly plus a number of supporting .NET assemblies. I am currently researching the possibility of using the "smart client" technology. That te...

SmartGWT Live Grid (with iBATIS)

I didn't find any docs about how to convert a SmartGWT ListGrid in a Live Grid. How can I do it? Is the ListGrid a Live Grid by default? If so, how can I disable this feature? Finally: I have to provide a DataSource for the Grid. My app uses iBATIS in the server-side, using GWT-RPC. How can I provide the data to the Live Grid and let it...

.net client profile horror

I read everywhere that the .net client Profile is helping spread .net 3.5 but up to my (now quite big) experience it is not: 1-On many computer it takes up to 1 hour to install , most however takes 30 min 2-the installer is not friendly at all : fast until 11%, blocking for 10 min, then resuming faster, then slowing again with no infor...

where can I get Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.DisconnectedAgent.dll?

I'm rebuilding a project that uses: Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.DisconnectedAgent.dll And I can't find it anywhere as a download: Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 - this creates the folder "SCSF-Apr2008" with a "lib" directory that has lots of "Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.*" DLLs but not the DisconnectedAgent ...

How relevant is support for "occasional connected" scenarios?

A while back, smart clients had been touted as the solution to "occasional connected" usage environments, and toolkits like Google Gears have sprouted for the same reason. It looks to me like constant, reliable Internet access is becoming more and more pervasive (even in places such as commercial airplanes), so my question to the communi...

Web vs Desktop Development (Online vs. Smart-Client)

Hi Everyone, I work at a company with a large SAP investment, and we also have dozens of large .Net systems (mostly internally for engineering systems), and Java platforms (mostly for external web applications). As such, we have large development shops on ABAP, C#, and JEE. We have decent standards for which platform to use in which do...

What .NET ORMs support smart clients (ie object mapping and data synchronization)

I was recently involved in a project that required a smart client. We used SQL Server Compact Edition and Microsoft Sync Services for ADO.NET. Our online server was SQL Server 2005. A quasi-ORM/DAL (very specific to our needs) was handcoded by a member of our team. Creating a custom ORM in this scenario cost us quite alot of development ...

.Net ClickOnce deployment and wrong assemblies called after updated version

Hi! I have a ClickOnce application (app1) that calls dlls from another Solution (app2). I recently updated this application at one customer and a strange thing occured. He got the new version (publish version was correct in control panel/add remove programs) of app1 and the application version was correct as manually inspected in the a...

.NET - ClickOnce Install - Company Name and Application Name

What is the proper way to set the Company Name and Application Name in a ClickOnce Application? I have a set of projects in a solution called RecordNavigator. The GUI project is called RecordNavigator.Gui When I publish the app - I want the Start menu to have a folder called Tyndall Software and the application shortcut to be called ...

create smart device cab through msbuild

Is it possible to use an msbuild task to build a smart device project into a cab file for deployment. I've seen a couple of pages on the web: http://guystarbuck.blogspot.com/#115584006223003606 http://blog.opennetcf.com/ctacke/2008/09/18/AutomatingCABFileGenerationWithMSBUILD.aspx but I can't believe that you have to go to that much t...

Is smartclient suitable?

Dear Sir, would you say that SmartClient is suitable when you have thousands of users editing grids? Or will the waiting time for the intended end-users most likely be very long? I have received warnings before that ExtJS would not be suitable. Thank you ...

Application Config Conundrum

Hello, I'm developing an n-tier smart client application. The client part of the application is split into two tiers. An interface application and client business lib that retrieves and serves data to the interface. The data is supplied via a collection of WCF services net.tcp and http depending on the client connectivity. My problem...