Tools for Building an OCA (Occasionally Connected Application)

Question

I will be building an in-house, Occasionally Connected App (OCA). What technologies would you suggest I employ.

Here are my parameters:

1. .NET Shop(3.5sp

Answer 1

Personally, I would say:

• .NET 3.5
• WCF Data Services (for communication between the client app and your data)
• SQL Server 2k5/2k8 (whichever you can use)
• Silverlight w/ Out of Browser Functionality
• VistaDB (to store data locally on the client until you can push to the server)