Sunday, October 20, 2002

I'm interested in .NET clients without client-side installs. Chris Sells has a great example in his Wahoo game. I love to click on a link in a browser and see a Windows program run with no (visible) installation. He has an article about .NET Zero Deployment on MSDN, where he says Only a technology that provided a deployment as compelling as HTML would stand a chance of unseating it. Jason Clark covers the same issue in his piece, The Return of the Rich Client. The same feature, along with CLR hosting in IE, lets .NET controls work in the browser without that annoying installation dialog that ActiveX control have. Jay Allen's article on Host Secure, Lightweight Client-Side Controls in Microsoft Internet Explorer describes how that works. And to round out the topic with some good overall perspective on why browser front-ends are so effective, Paul Prescod has this piece - The Browser will Rise Again. 10:48:22 AM

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