VSLive day 2

I just sat through Keith Pleas' session on the .NET build process. He talked about options like strong naming, GAC, and native image generation.

At this year's conference I've been noticing a lot of excitement around "Smart Clients". It seems like the method of deploying WinForms clients from a web server is gaining momentum. I think this is great. There are many advantages to this deployment model and very few drawbacks. In it's current state the security features built around .NET is very robust. For example administrators can define for the enterprise what managed code can do based on where it comes from. One instance of this is to deny code the right to execute on the user's machine except for code that's delivered through the intranet.