Building Smart Clients

Session Overviews

Smart Clients, the Next Generation of Client Software, is Here
During this keynote session, you will find out about the emerging opportunities of smart clients. You will hear what analysts say about smart clients and what some ISVs and customers are already doing with smart clients. Plus, you'll learn to determine for which scenarios smart clients make sense.

The Future: Building Smart Clients with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework V2.0
See the future of smart clients targeting Microsoft Windows. With Windows Forms 2.0, ClickOnce, and other features, smart clients will make a generational jump with the arrival of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Building Smart Clients for Windows Mobile
Aren't your customers asking you to add mobility to your solutions? Or, aren't you thinking about the new scenarios available on mobile devices? At this session, you'll learn about the exciting, cool world of mobile smart clients. Plus, you'll find out how you can easily use your existing .NET skills to develop fantastic mobile applications for Windows Mobile-powered Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

Leveraging Microsoft Office for your Smart Clients
This session will show how your smart client software applications and solutions, when built on the Microsoft Office System, will revolutionize your business. You’ll see how your Office Smart Clients can deliver increased productivity and improved utilization of IT resources to your customers, along with greater ease in connecting their systems. See how Office Smart Clients will deliver unsurpassed value to you and your customers. This session will kick-off the second half of the day, before drilling into the technical sessions.

Understanding Smart Clients Built on Microsoft Office System-Architecture, Patterns, and Scenarios
Growing demand for smart client applications leads to questions about architecture, patterns, and scenarios. For instance, how do smart clients fit into Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? What products and technologies will help me to develop my smart clients? During this technical session, we'll address questions like these. In addition, you'll see some of the patterns and practices that are being used to build smart clients that capture, transmit, and display information stored in line-of-business (LOB) systems.

Building Smart Clients with Microsoft Office System-an Overview of Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2005
Learn about the programming model for Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System 2005. VSTO's programming model includes the concept of separation of data and views of that data. Plus, find out about the new view controls, and see how you can combine the new view controls with Windows Forms controls to create a rich user interface (UI) and to handle UI events. Learn how to bind data to view controls and how to program the Document Actions task pane using the ActionsPane object.

Building Smart Clients with Microsoft Office System-Information Bridge Framework, V1.5
See how the Information Bridge Framework (IBF) brings contextual relevance to the world of Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, etc. You'll gain insight into how IBF works and its underlying architecture. In this session, we'll demonstrate IBF's capabilities and how it works with various Microsoft Office System applications.