Connected vs. Disconnected Clients
When Microsoft announced its plans for .NET, it was clear Microsoft was designing a framework that would allow developers to easily implement applications that work over the Internet. Sure, there are ways to do this with the previous version of Visual Studio and subsequent Software Development Kit (SDK) downloads, but it's clear that the .NET Framework was designed with the Internet in mind. This is immediately apparent once you delve into ADO.NET.
When Active Server Pages (ASP) and other related technologies were released, developers were finally able to push large amounts of data from a database residing on a server to an end user without having to copy the entire database and run it locally. However, this ...
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