Smart Clients

I've been building a couple of proposals at work based on "Smart Clients". This technique offers some really great advantages like no touch deployment and small DLL's. They are essentially .NET User Controls embedded on a web page.

Given your clients have the .NET Framework this has potential of becoming a common way of delivering applications. At my last job we developed our entire product with ActiveX controls on web pages. In most cases it was fine but sometimes we would rack our brains out dealing with DLL Hell issues. Hopefully we'll have a few minor issues with .NET smart clients.

I've been researching Visual Studio.NET wizards. I'd like to build a project type for Smart Clients. There are a couple of basic steps involved so it should be fairly easy.