[Dominic Harr]

Yeah, exactly, thanks for that link.

The 'Windows Forms' are more akin to the 'Java Web Start' tech. Downloading an app that executes locally on the client as a local app.

Very, very different from an Applet executing only in a browser, with no ability to affect the local machine.

[Bush2000]

The 'Windows Forms' are more akin to the 'Java Web Start' tech. Downloading an app that executes locally on the client as a local app. Very, very different from an Applet executing only in a browser, with no ability to affect the local machine.

The noticeable difference, Harr, is that Java applets run within a browser frame. These WinForms don't. As for security, WinForms apps have no capability on the local machine: They are constrained by the CLR. They can't read/write files outside of their scratch directory. In short, they can't do anything to destabilize the machine.