Advantages and Disadvantages of a Native Windows Client

A native Windows application offers a number of benefits to the developer. The devel oper has ultimate control over how information is presented, manipulated, and communicated. You have a large number of ActiveX controls at your disposal, as well as other code libraries, which have been developed over the years. Native Windows applications tend to have better performance because they can take advantage of local system resources. Native Windows applications tend to be the least expensive to develop because the applications have the capabilities to do their own emissary processing and thus do not need to integrate complex workflows between Web pages. The ability to include input validation ...

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