Interesting Orcas Feature of the [XYZ]: Client Application Services

Windows Forms Documentation Updates - Client Application Services in Windows Forms: End-to-End Walkthrough Available

"The Beta 1 release of Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" includes a new feature called Client Application Services. This feature enables Windows client applications to easily access user-management services hosted by a centralized ASP.NET Web service application.

The documentation for client application services is still in progress, but we have created an end-to-end walkthrough to demonstrate the key features. This walkthrough will be used as a lab session at the upcoming TechEd 2007 conference, but if you want a sneak peek, download the attached zip file, which contains the walkthrough and sample projects in Visual Basic and C#.

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Now that's interesting...

My first thought was that Client Application Services would increase the complexity of an application and its deployment for what value?

Then I started thinking (ouch, ouCH, OUCH ;)...  

This WOULD be cool in that you could use this to provide centralized business login services, one authentication backend for all in-house WinForm apps. And I wonder if caching will be available (think shared caching for ### WinForm apps)?  And... and... and...

Hum... Added to my mental keyword/watch list. 

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