Web Application vs Desktop Application

[Guest]

I wonder whether this article
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973831.aspx is still applicable to
..net 2.0/.net 3.0 and the current computing environment. Also, does it
happen that an application may be both Web and Desktop application?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

It is still applicable, but there are new configurations that may be more
useful than either of the 2 alternatives discussed. You might want to
investigate ClickOnce deployment, which is a sort of hybrid of a web and
desktop application. And check out WPF/E
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/bb187358.aspx), which is also a
kind of new hybrid.

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[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Peter,

Yes and not
Deskop is still firm but web changed a bit since then - AJAX, WPF/E were
introduced. They won a part of apps at destops, but I suppose that destop
wont be erradicated at all at the neares 5-10 years. There are too much apps
which are really good at destop, not the web.
Such kind of messengers, CAM, editors and etc.

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P> I wonder whether this article
P> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973831.aspx is still
P> applicable to .net 2.0/.net 3.0 and the current computing
P> environment. Also, does it happen that an application may be both
P> Web and Desktop application?
P>