MSDN TechTalk Winforms 2.0, et overblik

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MSDN TechTalk Winforms 2.0, et overblik

• Nikolaj Winnes, Microsoft Danmark
• nikolajw_at_microsoft.com
• http//blogs.msdn.com/nikolajw

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Smart Client
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Smart Client Features

• Local resources
• Direct display and peripheral access
• Responsive graphics, printers, digital cameras,
  etc.
• Use of installed applications
• Word, Excel, VSTO
• Connected
• Access to network resources
• Web services, SQL Databases

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Smart Client Features

• Offline capable
• Cache online data
• Update when connected
• Datasets in smart documents
• Intelligent deployment and update
• Easy non-administrator deployment
• Automatic updates
• Smart document deployment
• Rich / easy developer experience

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Smart Client Technologies

• Visual Studio 2005
• Rich visual designer support
• Integrated ClickOnce testing and deployment
• Visual Studio Tools for Office
• .NET Framework 2.0
• Windows Forms 2.0
• ClickOnce deployment

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Visual Studio 2005

• Project templates
• Get up and going quickly
• Common application types
• Designers
• Simplifies development of UI and layout
• Rich User Control development
• Rich support for Custom Controls

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DEMOSmart Client (GUI)
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Visual Studio 2005

• Data
• New data-bound controls
• Schema-based typed-data set designer
• Support for iterative maintenance of generated
  data-code
• Partial types for maintainable customizations of
  auto-generated code
• Reduced need for mapping or glue code
• Server explorer
• Integrated data manipulation

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DEMOSmart Client (Data)
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ClickOnce Deployment

• ClickOnce application deployment published on a
  web or file server

Server
application files

• Client follows link to serverhttp//www.tempuri.o
  rg/my.application
• Application deployed locally in users profile
  directory executed
• Subsequent executions check for updates execute
  local install

Client
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ClickOnce

• Smart Client deployment technology
• Provides web-deployment simplicity
• End User
• Provide web-deployment flexibility
• Publisher
• Other parallels to web-applications
• Applications are isolated per-user
• Can be executed with limited local permissions
• Locally executed, rich features

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ClickOnce Features

• Follow a link to install an application
• Automatic w/minimal or no decision points
• web-style deployment
• Automatic update of application
• Security isolation and optional restricted
  permissions
• Non-administrative installs

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ClickOnce VS 2005

• Project Settings ? Publish tab
• Set deployment location
• Configure data files for deployment
• Other settings version, online-only or
  online-offline, CD installations and other
  details
• Project Settings ? Security tab
• Calculating permissions required by your
  application to function
• Also add permissions using SecurityException at
  runtime
• Setting permissions in the manifest required to
  run
• Partial trust and full trust supported

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DEMOClickOnce Deployment
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Application Updates

• Auto-update deployment options
• Before application launch, or
• Update check occurs after app-launch
• Scheduled update checks
• Weekly, monthly, etc.
• Project Settings ? Publish tab
• Settings for update checking

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DEMOClickOnce Auto-update(Versioning)
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Smart Client Summary

• Rich features easier than ever to implement
• Windows Forms 2.0 new controls
• Windows Forms 2.0 improved data integration
• Installation and update easier than ever
• ClickOnce web-style simplicity
• ClickOnce web-style security
• SmartClient rich feature-set
• Customers access existing and new application
  features easily
• Customers access your application with or without
  network connectivity

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Resourcer

• Smart Client Developer Center på MSDN
  http//msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/
• Windows Forms .NET http//windowsforms.net/

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