Pro Service-Oriented Smart Clients with .NET 2.0

Sayed Y. Hashimi is the author of Pro Android, as well as a consultant and trainer in Jacksonville, Florida. Sayed has worked for startups and Fortune 100 companies. He has developed large-scale distributed applications with a variety of programming languages and platforms, including C++, Java, and .NET. Sayed has published in major software journals on topics ranging from low-level programming techniques to high-level architecture concepts.

• Pro Service-Oriented Smart Clients with .NET 2.0 Sayed Y. Hashimi and Scott J. Steffan Pro Service-Oriented Smart Clients with .NET 2.0 Copyright (c) 2005 by Sayed Y. Hashimi and Scott J. Steffan All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN (pbk): 1-59059-551-3 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor: Jonathan Hassell Technical Reviewer: Jason Mitchell Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Dan Appleman, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Tony Davis, Jason Gilmore, Jonathan Hassell, Chris Mills, Dominic Shakeshaft, Jim Sumser Associate Publisher and Project Manager: Grace Wong Copy Edit Manager: Nicole LeClerc Copy Editor: Marilyn Smith Assistant Production Director: Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor: Linda Marousek Compositor: Linda Weidemann Proofreader: Liz Welch Indexer: Valerie Perry Artist: Kinetic Publishing Services, LLC Interior Designer: Van Winkle Design Group Cover Designer: Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director: Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springer-sbm.com, or visit http://www.springeronline.com. For information on translations, please contact Apress directly at 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 219, Berkeley, CA 94710. Phone 510-549-5930, fax 510-549-5939, e-mail info@apress.com, or visit http://www.apress.com. The information in this book is distributed on an as is basis, without warranty. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work. Contents at a Glance About the Authors ... xiii About the Technical Reviewer ... xv Acknowledgments ... xvii Introduction ... xix ■CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to Smart Clients ... 1 ■CHAPTER 2 Types of Smart Clients ... 31 ■CHAPTER 3 Windows Forms Smart Clients ... 39 ■CHAPTER 4 Microsoft Office Smart Clients ... 77 ■CHAPTER 5 Mobile Smart Clients ... 113 ■CHAPTER 6 Offline Support ... 145 ■CHAPTER 7 WinForms Smart Client Deployment ... 173 ■CHAPTER 8 XML Web Services and Smart Clients... 209 ■CHAPTER 9 Service-Oriented Architecture... 247 ■CHAPTER 10 Service-Oriented Smart Clients ... 269 ■CHAPTER 11 SOSC Testing ... 299 ■INDEX ... 309 v