How to write a logical n-tier windows desktop application for both a physical 1-tier AND physical 3-tier deployment?

Visual Studio LightSwitch 1 does a trick pretty similar to what you describe: develop once, deploy in single or three tiers. If you're app is mostly about data maintenance it may very well be your ticket.

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