We had a bunch of sessions on the topic of Smart Clients. I was impressed with the way that One Click Deployment was presented, but then, most presentations are designed to impress the audience. I really think that Salem would benefit from Smart Client applications and I hope to be writing them when VS 2005 is released as beta 2 in late Spring.

I was under-whelmed, however, by the presentations on the Team software that Microsoft is releasing with Visual Studio 2005. I would have liked to see an improved updated version of Visual Source Safe. That product hasn’t been updated in at least 7 years.