.NET Client Applications
Host: Michael Stal, Siemens CT
In the recent years the various technology hypes in the .NET universe primarily focused on the development of .NET based enterprise applications using SOA, .NET Remoting, SQL Server 2005, WF, or WCF, to name just a few examples. Some software engineers started to believe that for the development of .NET clients everything important was already available and considered this area a little bit boring for exactly that reason. In contrast to this wrong assumption, a lot of new developments recently have become available in this area. For example, smart client applications that are suitable for partially disconnected clients, the ATLAS technology as a representative for the Web 2.0-biased AJAX paradigm, or WPF that among many other features introduces vector-based GUIs. The goal of the .NET Client side track is to present these excisting, new paradimgs and technologies for building .NET client applications as well as all the necessary best practices and software engineering techniques to do this efficiently and effectively.
