Pro Service-Oriented Smart Clients with . NET 2. 0

by Hashimi, Sayed Y.

• ISBN13: 9781590595510
• ISBN10: 1590595513
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-29
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Pro Service-Oriented Smart Clients with .NET 2.0 demonstrates how Smart Clients satisfy multiple purposes. First you deploy a Smart Client application to a server and send your user base a URL. Then when a user clicks the link, the server downloads the application to the end user's machine and then runs it on the client, just like a desktop application. This book satisfies growing demand for a professional resource on Smart Clients. This comprehensive book is unique because it touches all of the bases: agility, service orientation, testing intelligence, and even a definition of what the "smart" in Smart Client means.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	xiii
About the Technical Reviewer	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	xix
An Introduction to Smart Clients	1	(30)
Evolution of the Smart Client	2	(6)
Stand-Alone Applications: From DOS to Windows	3	(1)
Separation of the Client: Tiered Architecture	4	(1)
Enter the Internet: Web-Based Clients	5	(1)
Service-Oriented Clients	6	(2)
Thick Clients	8	(6)
Thick Client Architecture	8	(2)
Thick Client Anatomy	10	(1)
Thick Client User Experience	11	(1)
Thick Client Communication	12	(2)
Thick Client Development	14	(1)
Thick Client Deployment	14	(1)
Thin Clients	14	(7)
Thin Client Architecture	15	(2)
Thin Client Anatomy	17	(2)
Thin Client User Experience	19	(1)
Thin Client Communication	19	(1)
Thin Client Deployment	20	(1)
Smart Clients	21	(4)
Smart Client Architecture	21	(2)
Smart Client Anatomy	23	(1)
Smart Client User Experience	23	(1)
Smart Client Communication	24	(1)
Smart Client Deployment	25	(1)
Smart Client Development	25	(1)
Service-Oriented Smart Clients (SOSCs)	25	(5)
SOSC Architecture	26	(2)
SOSC Anatomy	28	(1)
SOSC Testing	29	(1)
SOSC User Experience	30	(1)
SOSC Communication	30	(1)
SOSC Deployment	30	(1)
Summary	30	(1)
Types of Smart Clients	31	(8)
Overview of Smart Client Types	31	(1)
Windows Forms Smart Clients	32	(2)
Offline Capabilities	32	(1)
Deployment Solutions	33	(1)
Office Smart Clients	34	(2)
VSTO-Based Office Smart Clients	34	(1)
IBF-Based Office Smart Clients	35	(1)
Mobile Smart Clients	36	(1)
Summary	37	(2)
Windows Forms Smart Clients	39	(38)
Getting Started with TaskVision	39	(8)
Installing the TaskVision Client	40	(1)
Installing the TaskVision Server	41	(2)
Installing the TaskVision Solution	43	(4)
TaskVision Architecture	47	(3)
Client and Server Communication	48	(1)
Server and Database Communication	49	(1)
System Security	49	(1)
TaskVision Implementation	50	(21)
TaskVision Server: TaskVisionWsCsVs	50	(8)
TaskVision Client	58	(13)
IssueVision	71	(4)
Getting Started with IssueVision	72	(2)
Exploring the Improvements in IssueVision	74	(1)
Summary	75	(2)
Microsoft Office Smart Clients	77	(36)
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Applications	77	(10)
VSTO Facilities for Smart Client Construction	78	(2)
VSTO Architecture	80	(2)
Data Binding and Data Caching	82	(2)
Custom Actions Panes	84	(2)
VSTO Wrap-Up	86	(1)
Information Bridge Framework (IBF) Applications	87	(24)
IBF Architecture	88	(1)
IBF Solution Construction	89	(22)
IBF Wrap-Up	111	(1)
Summary	111	(2)
Mobile Smart Clients	113	(32)
Windows Mobile Platform Overview	113	(2)
Mobile Devices	113	(1)
The .NET Compact Framework	114	(1)
Visual Studio 2005 Smart Device Projects	115	(4)
A Pocket PC Smart Client: FotoVision	119	(17)
FotoVision Installation	119	(8)
Web Application Implementation	127	(1)
Smart Client Implementation	127	(9)
Smart Device Application Deployment	136	(5)
Smart Device Application Packaging	136	(2)
Over the Air (OTA) Deployment	138	(1)
MSI Deployment	139	(1)
Sneakernet Deployment	140	(1)
What's Coming in Visual Studio 2005	141	(2)
Smartphone and Emulator Improvements	141	(1)
IDE, RAD Development, and Debugging Improvements	142	(1)
Language/Runtime, Managed APIs, and Deployment Improvements	142	(1)
Summary	143	(2)
Offline Support	145	(28)
Designing a Client-Side Cache or Data Store	145	(7)
Identifying Locally Storable Data	146	(1)
Refreshing Local Data	147	(1)
Implementing Local Data Storage	148	(4)
Using Smart Client Tools: Application Blocks	152	(12)
Adding Offline Capabilities with the Offline Application Block	152	(7)
Caching Data with the Caching Application Block	159	(5)
Maintaining Data Consistency	164	(3)
Choosing a Data Concurrency Approach	164	(2)
Implementing Optimistic Concurrency	166	(1)
Synchronizing Data	166	(1)
Handling Sensitive Data	167	(4)
Securing Data Transportation	167	(1)
Applying Authentication and Authorization	167	(1)
Protecting Client-Side Data	168	(3)
Summary	171	(2)
WinForms Smart Client Deployment	173	(36)
No-Touch Deployment	173	(3)
NTD Architecture	173	(1)
NTD Example	174	(1)
NTD Advantages and Disadvantages	175	(1)
One-Touch Deployment	176	(7)
OTD Architecture	176	(1)
OTD Example	177	(3)
OTD Updates	180	(2)
OTD Advantages and Disadvantages	182	(1)
Microsoft Installer (MSI) Deployment	182	(1)
ClickOnce Deployment	183	(16)
The ClickOnce Deployment Manifest	183	(4)
ClickOnce Example	187	(3)
Automatic ClickOnce Updates	190	(3)
Application Security with ClickOnce	193	(1)
The ClickOnce APIs	194	(3)
The Bootstrapper and Prerequisites	197	(2)
Smart Client Tools: The Application Updater Component and Updater Application Block	199	(9)
The Application Updater Component	199	(1)
The Updater Application Block	199	(9)
Summary	208	(1)
XML Web Services and Smart Clients	209	(38)
Business Case for XML Web Services	209	(5)
Opening Up the Back Office	211	(1)
Opening Up the Enterprise	212	(2)
XML Web Services Benefits and Drawbacks	214	(1)
Benefits of XML Web Services	214	(1)
Drawbacks of XML Web Services	215	(1)
Architecture of XML Web Services	215	(24)
XML	216	(11)
SOAP	227	(5)
Web Services Definition Language (WSDL)	232	(2)
Universal Discovery, Description and Integration (UDDI)	234	(4)
DISCO Files	238	(1)
XML Web Service Development	239	(6)
Summary	245	(2)
Service-Oriented Architecture	247	(22)
Service Identification	247	(5)
Business Modeling and Requirements Analysis	247	(3)
Data Analysis	250	(2)
SOA Communications	252	(6)
The Problem with Point-to-Point Interoperability	252	(2)
The MOM Interoperability Solution	254	(4)
Service-Oriented Architecture Development	258	(9)
Creating Web Services	259	(1)
Building a Message-Oriented Architecture	260	(3)
Discovering and Publishing XML Web Services	263	(3)
Exploiting the SOA	266	(1)
Summary	267	(2)
Service-Oriented Smart Clients	269	(30)
Service-Oriented Smart Client Model	269	(4)
SOSC Components	270	(1)
Gaming SOSC Example	271	(1)
Logistics SOSC Example	272	(1)
Pervasive and Ubiquitous Smart Clients	273	(11)
Media Agility	274	(5)
Communication Agility	279	(5)
Smart Client State and Persistence	284	(6)
State Maintenance with a Wired Connection	285	(1)
State Maintenance with a Wireless Connection	286	(1)
State Maintenance Without a Connection	287	(3)
Concurrency with Smart Clients	290	(4)
Multitasking and Multithreading	290	(2)
Background and Foreground Execution	292	(1)
Thread Management	293	(1)
A Review of Smart Client Configurations	294	(3)
Single-Application Smart Clients	294	(1)
Multiple-Application Smart Clients	295	(1)
SOSCs	295	(2)
Summary	297	(2)
SOSC Testing	299	(10)
Software Testing Stages	299	(3)
Unit Testing	299	(1)
Integration Testing	300	(2)
System Testing	302	(1)
Test Data Selection	302	(2)
SOSC Testing Requirements	304	(2)
Communication Testing	304	(1)
State Maintenance Testing	305	(1)
Concurrency Testing	305	(1)
Smart Agent Testing	305	(1)
Smart Test Component	306	(2)
Summary	308	(1)
Index	309