>But I think I need a further clarification (beginner's question), about .NET.
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>A friend told me that when developing with .NET, the users of the software would often use a client-server approach, with the clients accesing the server only through Web pages.
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>Is this the standard way to work in .NET? Do you work like this?
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>The requirements for the client (browser) would be much less in this case, right?

Main idea of M$ is based on the research of Gartner group, where is stated that till end of decade 80% of used business applications will be web-based.
It is true that you can very fast deploy web application with .Net(C#, VB, ASP) There is a lot of open source projects done to help developers to create web-portal, store, community, etc apps(www.asp.net)
wbe based application could be hosted at public fast server and even clients woth low cost PC can access them through IE browser.

Client-server applications working in LAN we made with SQLServer/MSDE in same way as we do with VFP. But with VFP we made them 2-3 times faster and they work faster :-)))