As I listened to Bill Gates speak at the Office Developer's Conference in Redmond last week, I couldn't help but think how far Microsoft has come in terms of developer access to the Office Suite of products and how the Smart Client Revolution was in full force.

.NET Developer's Journal Editorial Board member Tim Huckaby writes: 'Microsoft's Paul Flessner gave his keynote entitled 'Getting Ready for Connected Systems' at Tech·Ed 2005 here in Orlando, Florida this morning. The huge announcement of the day was that SQL Serv...

This article covers building .NET applications in Whidbey and manifesting them in Word and Excel documents. This is accomplished with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005).

In May of 2003 Microsoft asked me to do a keynote-like session at the Visual Studio.NET launch event in Oslo, a trip I just couldn't pass up. The problem was that I had no idea what a smart client application was. I had to quickly get smart on smart client applica...

Tim Huckaby surveys the five most significant technologies used to build smart client applications and observes: 'The only thing holding back the .NET smart client revolution from exploding is the dependency of the .NET framework at the client machine.' It's a 'gr...

(October 27, 2003) – As I walked out of the opening keynote (run by Bill Gates and Jim Allchin) at PDC 2003 Monday, it occurred to me that it was one of the best keynotes I have seen in years. Trust me, I have been to 10+ years of these things. I am usually disap...