Re: Will ClickOnce replace a lot of ASP.Net

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Hi,

Tina wrote:
Laurent,
Well, I'm only thinking about "closed environments" in organizations where everyone uses Windows with the framework and everyone uses I.E. I develop enterprise applications with ASP.Net - not public web sites.

That removes a lot of your listed weak points. Also, I view Windows Froms programing as productive and I view JavaScript and Atlas as more of a non-productive mix of uh, stuff. Also, AJAX still seems kind of klunky to me.

I am wondering why you see that as "klunky". It's simply a client-server communication mechanism. It's very similar to, say, .NET remoting. Of course it's asynchronous, so it needs to be very aware of what you're doing, but it's a modern way of programming anyway, unlike procedural, sequential applications. Or maybe I don't understand what you mean with "klunky"...

As for JavaScript and ATLAS, it's very necessary to understand how the web works to program web applications. JavaScript is a very powerful language, and very flexible. But most JavaScript programmers don't truly understand this power, and use it wrongly.

I think that many desktop applications programmers have a hard time changing to web application programming, because the concepts are very different, because of certain limitations that have to be considered, etc... Each scenario calls for a careful analysis, helping you to choose which application model you need. For the records, in the project I work on now, we are spending a lot of time carefully analysing the alternatives. For us, the possible candidates are: A classical web application, a web application with WPF/E, a XBAP application, a WPF application deployed via ClickOnce, or a WPF application deployed via MSI installation. WinForms are not an interesting alternative for us anymore.


BTW, it's not that I am "worried." I think it would be nirvana to write functionality in Windows Forms.

Since I started working with WPF, it's not really attractive for me to go back to Windows Forms... I guess that every technology brings a whole new world of possibilities ;-)

T

Greetings,
Laurent
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