This article will talk first about what constitutes a .NET Smart Client, its attributes, its behaviors, and then we'll talk about how the Intelligent Updater feature fits into PowerBuilder 11's .NET Smart Client support initiative. Finally, we'll walk through a detailed tutorial on how you can use the Intelligent Updater to install, publish, and update your .NET Windows Form-deployed PowerBuilder applications easily.
Arguably, the biggest headache for application development has been...deployment. The initial and ongoing appeal of browser-based applications has always been about automatically updating the application logic and interface for every single user. But this ease of deployment of the so-called thin client application has come at a cost, hasn't it?
