We specialize in Smart Client applications built with Microsoft .NET technologies, using the .NET Framework, Windows Forms, ClickOnce®, ADO.NET, and .NET Web Services. Our focus has provided us with experience and a deep level of understanding on these technologies and how to use them successfully.

Development Scenarios

• End to end development
• Optimizing or enhancing existing .NET applications or infrastructure
• Development team augmentation
• Troubleshooting Microsoft Application Architecture issues
• Upgrade from .NET 1.0/1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0
• Migrate from Java to .NET
• Emergency intervention to assist on troubled projects

Microsoft Windows Forms

• Development of highly custom UI controls utilizing GDI+ and inherited extensions to both framework provided controls and 3rdparty controls
• Cross-process applications using .NET Remoting and file system hooks
• Extensive experience utilizing P/Invoke to utilize system functionality not exposed in the framework
• Practical experience utilizing reflection to extend the framework
• Proven architecture facilitating central usage logging and add-in style (extensible) architecture
• Generics in action

Microsoft ClickOnce®

• Creation of deployment processes for ClickOnce® architecture to facilitate multiple environments, pre and post production
• Extensions to ClickOnce® to facilitate addition functionality such as desktop shortcuts, on demand component downloads, auto start, branded and re-signing installs

ADO.NET

• Automation of Dataset Table Adapters
• Heavy use of ADO.NET both as a mechanism to transfer data and as a local/offline store
• Client side data encryption
• Automatic SQL Client data layer generation eliminating error prone code upkeep for schema changes
• Dataset extensions to improve the performance of common procedures such as Merge
• Dataset extensions to provide query-engine style functionality such as table joins to facilitate highly customized views of data on the client without additional round trips to a server

.NET Web Service

• Extensive experience integrating 3rd party services into our applications including sources such as Siebel and Map Point
• Proven designs for reliable client to server data transfer
• Self documenting web services
• Proven designs for facilitating Active Directory integrated, role based security, on top of Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008