Orcas enables easy offline client apps
I just saw that steve does a couple of very cool screen casts showing off how easy it will be for WinForms and WPF client apps to operate effectively offline and in high latency networks...
In part 1 , I used the Visual Studio Orcas Sync Designer to configure and synchronize 3 lookup tables to be cached locally in SQL Server Compact Edition using the Sync Services for ADO.NET CTP.
In part 2 of this screen cast, I take the cached lookup tables and split up the client and server sync components using WCF to glue them together.