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Store See larger picture Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide (Patterns & Practices) by Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Press List Price: $24.99 Price at Amazon.com: $18.99 (Save 24%) Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. Shipping rates and policies Average Customer Review: Based on 2 reviews. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 701003 Product Description Get expert, pragmatic guidance on how to design and build smart client solutions that combine the benefits of traditional, rich-client applications with the manageability of thin clients. Software architects and developers will learn how to evaluate whether a smart client solution is appropriate for their client architecture, and get practical recommendations on how to deal with the design and technical challenges associated with building smart clients solutions using Microsoft(r) Windows(r) Forms technology in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Topics include handling data, connecting to the back end, offline functionality, security features, multithreading, deployment, and performance. PATTERNS & PRACTICES guides are reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, partners, and customers delivering accurate, real-world information that s been technically validated and tested. Featured Customer Reviews Only fair, November 18, 2005 This book is OK as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. Although it has some good guidelines in some specific areas it does not live up the the standards set by another book in this series: "Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET". That book covers Web based .NET application design and lists many of the usefull design patterns as well as how they can be implemented in .NET. I would have liked to see this book do the same. Compact and useful, August 22, 2005 This book reminds you about important aspects of the new NET-based generation of rich cient - smart client - development. It goes not too deep into the subject, but rather gives you a big picure and contains references to MSDN. It may help a lot, because MSDN is bigger than a whole life. This book covers the following areas: - A comparison of smart client with thin and COM/DCOM-based rich client - Data management on client - caching, concurrency, dataset, and data binding in WinForms - In brief - connections management - remoting, messaging, enterprise and Web services. How to avoid distributed transction, how to manage large datasets. - More detailed - occasionally connected clients, including handling dependencies and resolving data and rules conflicts. - Security - Multithreading - Deployment - Performance As I stated before, useful and compact handbook. I gave only 4 stars, because even if you have this book, you need MSDN also. You might also be interested in these items... Programming Microsoft Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory (Pro-Best Practices) Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services (Designing Applications & Serv) Pro Service-Oriented Smart Clients with .NET 2.0 (Pro) Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .Net: Version 2.0 : Patterns & Practices Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures