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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(this may be something we'll look at a few months down the road)

CoApp conformant packages are can not interact with the user at install time.

However, after installation, a user will want to configure an application, and perhaps there should be a simplified method to building a common User Interface for configuring them, rather than relying on users to edit text files manually, or play around registry keys, etc.

And, now that I think about it, it would help with remote administration if it all hooked up like a mmc snapin.

It appears that MMC 3.0 supports a .NET Winforms model for building snapins. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms692744%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

I've got a really cool idea percolating in my head... kindof a mildly generic snapin that can expose simple configuration concepts via an xml file (+Javascript?) so that app publishers can leverage a very consistent UI for configuring everything.

Plus, this makes it all easy to remotely configure CoApp-installed applications on remote machines.

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