Longhorn, Another New Possibility - Another Way for Developing Applications with Longhorn
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Developing applications with Longhorn is very different from developing applications using the current operating systems. In the traditional Windows-based applications (including Web-applications because they run on a browser of the current Windows OS) we have two types of applications, Windows-based applications and Web-based applications. Before you begin your development you must know whether you are developing the application as a Web application or as a Windows application.
The Microsoft Longhorn design team has been thinking about the gap between Windows applications and Web applications -- as you know Windows applications are very powerful and in most cases faster than Web applications. Nevertheless, Web applications have no problems related to deployment and installing of the application’s components. This design team designed a structure for Longhorn applications so that when you program you will develop only one structure which can be a Windows application or a Web application without creating two separate and different types of applications. Even better, you will not need to modify your code structure.
Longhorn will help us in the issue of deployment as well. You will only need to deploy the file of the application without deploying any other files regardless of whether it's a Windows or Web-based application (because it's just one structure which can work as both).
Now imagine the future with Longhorn, just a single instance of the work and it will function on both sides of the game. What can I say --except that I'm preparing myself and my team to get the first Longhorn application done soon!
In the messages that I received about Longhorn, .NET and C# developers asked me if C# will be dead with the release of Longhorn. I will attempt to answer that question in a very simple way.
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