Questions tagged [smartclient]

Smart Client helps you to build and maintain more usable, portable, efficient web applications faster, propelled by an open, extensible stack of industry-tested components and services.

SmartClient provides an end-to-end application architecture, from UI components to server-side transaction handling. The examples included with SmartClient demonstrate the simplicity that can only be achieved by a framework that addresses both server- and client-side architectural concerns to deliver globally optimal solutions. SmartClient‘s UI components are carefully designed to maximize responsiveness and minimize server load, and SmartClient‘s server components are designed around the requirements of high-productivity user interfaces. Even if you adopt only part of the SmartClient solution, you benefit from an architecture that takes into account the entire problem you need to solve, not just a part of it. Every integration point in the SmartClient platform has been designed with a clear understanding of the requirements you need to fulfill, and, the solutions built into SmartClient provide a blueprint for one way of meeting those requirements.

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Pitfalls/gotchas of ClickOnce/smart-client deployment in .NET

I have several .NET Windows Forms applications that I'm preparing to convert into a ClickOnce/smart-client deployment scenario. I've read the isn't-this-great tutorials, but are there pitfalls or "gotchas" that I should be aware of? There are…
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Can I create a desktop icon for a ClickOnce application?

I have read in some of the ClickOnce posts that ClickOnce does not allow you to create a desktop icon for you application. Is there any way around this?
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Problems understanding use of MVVM when using WCF DTO's in a WPF smart client app

Having very little experience in the area I am writing a WPF smart client app communicating to a WCF backend using MVVM and am really struggling to make the right decisions out of all the information out there. Which leads me to a set of questions…
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SmartClient or SmartGWT?

Besides the obvious differences between JavaScript and Java, what are the relevant differences in using either SmartClient or SmartGWT?
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.NET - ClickOnce Install - Company Name and Application Name

What is the proper way to set the Company Name and Application Name in a ClickOnce application? I have a set of projects in a solution called RecordNavigator. The GUI project is called RecordNavigator.Gui. When I publish the application - I want the…
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Progressive web application with persistent local database

What is the best choice for local database when implementing a progressive web application? Initially the choice was to design a smart client desktop application with one click deployment that will install a local SQLite database. Local database can…
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Smart Client vs Ext JS

I'm looking to build a rich UI in the browser, and it seems like these two solutions are the way to go to get the most power and flexibility as quickly as possible. Smart Client seems promising, but ExtJS seems more popular. Has anyone been able to…
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ExtJS or SmartClient?

I would like your opinion about these two frameworks. I like a lot the features of ExtJS, but recently I saw SmartClient and it seems to be great too, and free (its Client side features) for commercial projects. I tried a little of SmartClient and…
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Smart clients easier to maintain than web apps?

I have been working on a project that has 2 interfaces - windows forms and web. Over the past 8 months, we have faced more issues with maintenance of our web apps (works in IE not in FF, ajax breaks in some weird ways that is not easy to debug... )…
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Smart Client Guidance = Prism? Vs 2010

I have found this link http://smartclient.codeplex.com/ which has some updates for vs 2010 .... I don't know but i always seem to get confused i.e. lack of documentation etc..... but is this the same as Prism?? If not can anyone tell me where the…
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.NET ClickOnce deployment and wrong assemblies called after updated version

I have a ClickOnce application (app1) that calls DLL files from another solution (app2). I recently updated this application at one customer and a strange thing occurred. He got the new version (publish version was correct in Control Panel/Add or…
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Web vs Desktop Development (Online vs. Smart-Client)

I work at a company with a large SAP investment, and we also have dozens of large .Net systems (mostly internally for engineering systems), and Java platforms (mostly for external web applications). As such, we have large development shops on ABAP,…
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C# .Net exe doesn't close when PC is restarted, keeping the machine from restarting

We have a SmartClient built in C# that stubornly remains open when the PC its running on is being restarted. This halts the restart process unless the user first closes the SmartClient or there is some other manual intervention. This is causing…
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Smart client Winform vs MVVM + Prism

Is Windows forms Simart Client is a legacy thing now? And is it to be replaced by Prism (and/or MVVM)? Should I bother to learn about Smart Client? Another question which might be related to is that what are the performance differences between…
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Citrix - how to keep smartclient apps from re-downloading every time they are launched

Our company uses Citrix to remote into a terminal server for remote users to launch smart client apps within a virtual window on their machine. The problem is that smartclient apps are being downloaded each time the user launches them eventhough the…
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