RSS 2.0 Feed
RSS 2.0


Atom 1.0 Feed
Atom 1.0

  Smart Client Offline Application Block 


qt8gt0bxhw|20009F4EEE83|RyanMain|subtext_Content|Text|0xfbffa60000000000ad00000001000200

Last month Microsoft released a new application block - the Smart Client Offline Application Block. This application block of re-usable code and samples, can be used to model your own applications to allow them to detect the presence or absence of a network connection, cache data for use while offline, and re-synchronize data and tasks with the network once the application goes online.

According to David Hill, the block uses a store and forward mechanism which is suitable for message-based interactions with the network, such as you would get with a smart client operating in a service oriented environment. This is a very flexible model and doesn’t require the kind of tight integration between client and server you find with database merge-replication approaches to offline.

Download the Smart Client Offline Application Block

BTW, David also has a great article that goes into what a Smart Client actually is, titled What is a Smart Client anyway?. Definitely a great read.




                   

Comments have been closed on this topic.



 

News


Also see my CRM Developer blog

Connect:   @ryanfarley@mastodon.social

         

Sponsor

Sections