Up North...
For my current gig for Magenic, I am in northern Minnesota. For a travel gig, it's not too bad. They have a private plane to take me back and forth every week. Hotel, Food and Car are covered, no need to fill out reimbursement paper work. This is what it must feel like to be a rock star...except in a much smaller and colder town.
Anyways, we are working on a smart client application; I've used the Smart Application Offline Application Block in a .Net 1.1. I could have sworn it was included in the Enterprise Application Blocks for 2.0. Of course there is not a 2.0 version of it. It's a pretty simple application block, and I can put something together to use instead, but that's not really the point, it's just annoying to give me something than take it away next version, with out a suitable replacement.
It's still worth taking a look at if you are doing smart client development.
Smart Client Offline Application Block
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd864eb5-56b3-43a5-a964-6f23566df0ab&DisplayLang=en
Smart Client Design Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8EC600BD-A2E5-44AC-9A8F-68D06361853E&displaylang=en
For those of you wondering where is my .Net Speech post is. I’m still working on the demo code and PowerPoint for the Speech stuff I am doing in November and I will have it up soon.