The Developers Group http:www.richplum.net

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• The Developers Group http//www.richplum.net

18th July, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading
Group Leader Brian Long http//blong.com
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Agenda

• 1200 - 100 Welcome, News Problem Clinic
• 100 - 210 A Multi-Database Upgrader
  Utility Peter Goddard
• 210 - 230 Tea/coffee biscuits
• 230 - 335 Migration from Legacy
  Data-Files to Relational Databases Rol
  and Potter

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• 335 - 340 Brief fidget break
• 340 - 445 Making Trees With SQL Adam
  Brett
• 445 - 450 Brief Fidget Break
• 450 - 600 Developing ASP.NET Websites
  using DotNetNuke John Braga

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News

• Installaware (http//www.installaware.com) have
  kindly donated copies of their software to be
  given away at each of the next few meetings
• 3 Express versions (RRP 55.55)
• 1 Developer version (RRP 195.80)
• Online purchase, employing the crossgrade
  purchase option yields 33 discount on RRP
• MSI-based
• LZMA/BCJ2 compression
• One-click patch creation
• Debugging
• Etc.

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• Bob Swart and Brian Long have announced they are
  teaming up to provide training and consultancy
  services world-wide, covering subjects such as
• Borland Delphi
• Borland Kylix
• Borland CBuilder
• RemObjects Chrome
• .NET
• C
• ASP.NET

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• 24 Hours of Delphi BDNRadio event held on 13th
  July
• Many Delphi luminaries involved
• Recordings of all sessions available at
• http//www.omegaair.com/delphi
• http//24hours.rad-on.de

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• WeFly247 Mobile Development Web Cast
• WeFly247 is an end-to-end sample application that
  aims to show the best new features available to
  developers targeting Microsoft platforms using
  Visual Studio 2005
• In this web cast, we will explore the Windows
  Mobile-specific Pocket PC Attendant application
• https//www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id
  WEFLY247-WMroleattendpwWEFLYPASSENGER
• http//tinyurl.com/axwhy
• Requires Media Player 9 or later
• Live Meeting 2005 Meeting Console
• http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP012
  036181033.aspx
• http//tinyurl.com/dag7e

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• Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology
  Preview available now! (ish)
• Delphi 2005 registered users area
  http//www.borland.com/products/downloads/register
  ed/download_delphi.html
• Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN

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• Next meeting on Tuesday, September 20th at POSK,
  Hammersmith
• Topics to include
• Writing user documentation
• Windows Media Centre
• OpenGL 3D Graphics
• And more besides
• Full agenda will be shortly available at
• http//richplum.net/meeting/20050920.pdf

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• ASP.NET Security Best Practices Masterclass with
  Michael Li
• October 3rd, Microsoft Office, Soho
• http//www.richplum.co.uk/meeting/20051003.pdf

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• The second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day is
  coming.
• Scheduled for October 22nd
• To be held at Microsoft office, Reading
• To contain 30 minute and 60-75 minute sessions
• http//www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p105

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

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• Microsoft e-Learning is offering free 90 day
  subscriptions to eLearning courses on VS2005 and
  SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005.
• https//www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio200
  5

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• Add ICE entry to your mobile phone contact
  database
• In Case of Emergency
• For multiple contacts add ICE, ICE2, ICE3, etc.

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