ABOUT THE SPEAKER Raj Das is a principal consultant with ESS/Magenic Technologies in Chicago. He spends his working time on all things .NET, with a preference for ASP.NET, Smart Clients, TabletPC, SQL Server, SharePoint Products and Technologies, and BizTalk. Raj has been consulting with Microsoft technologies since 1996 and working with .NET since v1.0 – Beta 2; he is a MCSD.NET. SESSION DESCRIPTION The Smart Client is a relatively new application development model bringing together the rich, interactive user experience of WinForms and the ease of deployment of ASP.NET applications. We'll look at Smart Client architecture, design, and implementation using the Smart Client Offline Application Block with a bias toward a service-oriented architecture (SOA). I will also briefly review what is on the horizon as new and different for Smart Client applications in Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0.