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The Developers Group richplum

17 th October, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading. The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net. Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com. Agenda. 12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic 1:00 - 2:00 – Talking to PocketPCs Jim Cooper 2:00 - 2:05 – Brief Fidget Break

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The Developers Group richplum

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  1. 17th October, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com

  2. Agenda • 12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic • 1:00 - 2:00 – Talking to PocketPCsJim Cooper • 2:00 - 2:05 – Brief Fidget Break • 2:05 - 2:35 – A Quick Look At DeXterJason Vokes • 2:35 - 2:55 – Tea/coffee & biscuits

  3. Agenda • 2:55 - 3:55 – Enterprise Core Objects: What it is, How you can use it, What it's been used for alreadyJason Vokes • 3:55 - 4:00 – Brief Fidget Break • 4:00 - 5:00 – Remoting With RemObjectsRafe Aldridge • 5:00 - 6:00 – What's New in ADO.NET 2.0?Alex Homer

  4. News • Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology Preview available now! • Delphi 2005 registered users area: http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/registered/download_delphi.html • Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN: http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33066,00.html

  5. News

  6. News • Delphi 2006 announced on 10th October • Features: • VCL Live Guidelines • Live Templates • Block Completion • New Refactorings • Push / Pull Members • Extract Interface • Extract SuperClass • Safe Delete • FastCode Memory Manager • Faster Startup • Stable IDE • Together for Delphi and C#

  7. News • Delphi 2006 features: • ECO in all editions • O/R Mapping • Transparent Persistency • Object Transactions • Class Modelling • ECO III State Machines • ECO III Domain Patterns • ASP.NET ECO AutoForms • Database Explorer also shows dbExpress • SQL Server Unicode in dbExpress • BDP Connection Pooling • BDP SQL Tracing • BDP DataHub Error Reconciliation • New BDP Drivers: SQL Server 2005, MySQL

  8. News • PDC is over • However all the slides are online:http://microsoftpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx

  9. News • Windows Longhorn* was officially renamed on 22nd July to Windows Vista: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista • Indigo is now called WCF (Windows Communication Foundation): http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/connected • Avalon is now called WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation): http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experience*Note: Longhorn code name not original...

  10. News (Vista cont.) • The UX (user experience) guidelines are called AERO: • Authentic • Energetic • Reflective • Open • Direct3D10 is now called WGF 2.0 (Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0)

  11. News • Altova have released their XML engines (as used in XMLSpy et al) for free download: http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html • AltovaXML2005 includes engines for: • XML validating parser • XSLT 1.0 • XSLT 2.0 (schema-aware) • XQuery 1.0 • Can be accessed from: • Command line • COM interfaces • Java interfaces • .NET interfaces

  12. News • The second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day is coming. Soon. • Scheduled for this Saturday (October 22nd) • To be held here at Microsoft office, Reading • To contain 30 minute and 60 minute sessions • http://www.developerday.co.uk

  13. News • The next BDN Radio extravaganza will be 24 Hours of BDS 2006 • Scheduled for 24th October • Keep an eye on http://bdn.borland.com and/or http://blogs.borland.com/ao

  14. News • Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch date is 7th November 2005 • .NET 2.0 (aka Whidbey) will implicitly be launched on the same date

  15. News • Next meeting on Tuesday, November 15th at POSK, Hammersmith • Topics to include • What’s new in Visual Studio 2005 • Using Visual Studio 2005 • Advanced RichEdit Capabilities • Advantage Database Server • And more besides • Full agenda available at: • http://richplum.net/meeting/20051115.pdf

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