Smart Client

[Richard K Bethell]

The Bigger Better Basic tour spoke to us about "smart clients." It seemed
intriguing, especially the web-launched executables that downloaded the
required assemblies under the hood - that was fascinating.

However, these one day presentations do not usually have time to show you
how you would do these things. So I looked around on MSDN, but couldn't find
anything that described, in practical terms, how you would do this - just
the usual "architect" stuff (for those folks who don't write code but are in
charge of those who do. ;-)

Are there any examples on MSDN, even small simple ones, of how this works? I
can really see this being useful!

R.

[Peter Huang]

Hi Richard,

You may try to take a look at the link.
eath of the Browser?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/dnadvnet/ht
ml/vbnet10142001.a sp

You may try to create a winform app and add a button, paste the code in the
button click handle function.
Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Try
'Download the assembly from a web server over HTTP
Dim sLocation As String
sLocation = _
"HTTP://sha-vphuang-03/SmartClientDll. dll"
Dim formAsm As [Assembly] = [Assembly].LoadFrom(sLoca tion)
'Get the Form from the assembly
Dim formtype As Type = formAsm.GetType ("SmartClientDl l.Form1")
'Create an instance of the Form
Dim FormObj As Object
FormObj = Activator.Creat eInstance(formt ype)
'Cast it to a Form object to enable early binding and show the
form
Dim Form1 As Form = CType(FormObj, Form)
Form1.Show()
Catch exc As Exception
MsgBox(exc.ToSt ring)
End Try
End Sub

Create classlibrary and add a form , add a button onto the form, paster the
code to the button click handle function.
Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
MsgBox("Hello Big client")
End Sub

If you have any concern on this issue., please post here.
Regards,
Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Subject: Smart Client
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The Bigger Better Basic tour spoke to us about "smart clients." It seemed
intriguing, especially the web-launched executables that downloaded the
required assemblies under the hood - that was fascinating.

However, these one day presentations do not usually have time to show you
how you would do these things. So I looked around on MSDN, but couldn't findanything that described, in practical terms, how you would do this - just
the usual "architect" stuff (for those folks who don't write code but are incharge of those who do. ;-)

Are there any examples on MSDN, even small simple ones, of how this works? Ican really see this being useful!

R.