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What is the Personal Tier?

Personal Tier applications eliminate the server from the standard Web applications paradigm, allowing requests to be processed on the client itself. Developers can use the same powerful ASP+ technologies available for programming on the server to create dynamic content that runs the client. This offers Web application developers the advantages of using a single programming model for both their server-based applications and those that they design to run in the Personal Tier. In addition, developers will frequently be able to share code between these types of applications, making it easy for them to provide seamless navigation from applications that run on the server to Personal Tier applications.

Personal Tier applications can be downloaded and installed without requiring the user to explicitly run an installer. Also supported are one-click application removal and a simple feature that checks for application updates. It also does not cause adverse performance on normal browsing scenarios.

Personal Tier supports browsers on all versions of Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, and Windows 95.

Personal Tier application users will have the advantage of running rich ASP+ applications even while their computers are not connected to the Internet. For example, a Web site that sells books could add Personal Tier functionality to their inventory catalog, allowing users to download the catalog onto their local computer to browse and select the books that they wished to purchase. Then when the users wanted to make their order, they would be able to upload their selections to the company's site after simply making sure that they were reconnected to the server.

Some of the benefits of providing ASP+ applications that run on the Internet Explorer process are:

See Also

Browser-hosted ASP+ Applications