[Smartclient-developers] First steps...

[Kris G. <krs...@ya...>]

Hey guys, looks like most people are trickling into
the list at this point.  I've also gotten some more
requests to get involved in the project, and am
wondering at what point do we think we'll have too
many people on board at such an early phase?  Do we
have a magic number?  Any input here is appreciated.

It appears that everyone is on board with the use case
initiative which should be valuable to us as the
project progresses.  Last night I uploaded the coding
conventions (let me know if there are any issues) to
the site page, and I'm hoping to get the use case
writing guidelines up tonight.  This will be pretty
concise since they should ot require a sickening level
of detail to convey the necessary information.

Once everyone has checked out the GotDotNet sample
Matt mentioned, we can begin with the requirements. 
There are a number of issues to discuss, some off the
top of my head are:

1. Security issues related to downloading assemblies
2. Updating of RDBMS or other datastore
3. GAC updates
4. Extensibility for areas that will surely vary by
application - like client authentication (based on
licensing information, etc.) for updates.
5. Update manifest security - e.g. no tampering of the
manifest befor the client agent executes it

Looking forward to getting started.

Thanks,

Kris


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