Craig’s Musings

I’ve been patiently waiting to blog about this for some time. Now that Microsoft has finally gone public with this during this week’s TechEd…
Acropolis’s vision is to revolutionize the way that organizations define, develop, configure, deploy and manage client solutions. Clearly, this is a broad vision, and it will be realized over a set of releases. [...]

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It’s good to finally see “Smart Clients: Essential Requirements and Candidate Services” published on MSDN.
This article was something I helped craft when the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board was active. As the article states, MAAB has been retired and many, if not all, MAAB members are now Solution Architect MVPs.
One important name not listed in the [...]

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Yesterday, Microsoft released its Smart Client Software Factory to MSDN.

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The state of available smart client plumbing for Microsoft developers is maturing nicely.

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I have another Outlook gripe to air, but I also want to plug VSTO-O.

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