The Developers Group http:www.richplum.net

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

16th May, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading
Group Leader Brian Long http//blong.com
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Agenda

• 1200 - 100 Welcome, News Problem Clinic
• 100 - 210 Driving MS Office with Visual
  Studio Mike Pelton
• 210 - 215 Brief fidget break
• 215 - 315 Windows Installer Rob Bracken

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Agenda

• 315 - 340 Tea/coffee biscuits
• 340 - 455 An Overview Of ClickOnce
  Deployment Guy Smith-Ferrier
• 455 - 500 Brief Fidget Break
• 500 - 600 Delving into the
  Registry Brian Long

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News

• Installaware (http//www.installaware.com) have
  kindly donated 4 licenses 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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• Bold is back (and free!) for Delphi 2005
• Download link at
• http//bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33058,00.htm
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• http//tinyurl.com/7srdt
• Includes lots of never before released
• source code
• Includes examples

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• APress release some of their books as free eBooks
• Notable examples
• COM and .NET Interoperability
• A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
• Dissecting a C Application Inside SharpDevelop
• Oh, and theres one on VB.NET too
• http//www.apress.com/free

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• Bob Reselmans acclaimed novel Coding Slave about
  being a developer is available free online
• http//codingslave.blogspot.com/2005/03/q-wheres-i
  t-going.html
• http//tinyurl.com/cvjwa

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• Two new free .NET command-line tools available
• ILMerge merge multiple .NET assemblies into one
  (was on MSR originally)
• http//www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa
  milyID22914587-b4ad-4eae-87cf-b14ae6a939b0Displa
  yLangen
• http//tinyurl.com/4ur5l
• LibCheck report assembly differences in terms
  of removed and added APIs
• http//www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fa
  milyid4b5b7f29-1939-4e5b-a780-70e887964165displa
  ylangen
• http//tinyurl.com/3rbzs

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• June 7th, 1000-1115pm
• http//msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDeta
  ils.aspx?EventID1032274949Cultureen-US
• http//tinyurl.com/89jbp
• TechNet Webcast Understanding and Fighting
  Malware Viruses, Spyware and Rootkits (Level
  300)
• Mark Russinovich, Chief Software Architect and
  Co-founder, Winternals Software

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• .NET 2.0 Beta 2 was (eventually) signed off on
  14th April
• .NET Beta 2 GoLive
• http//lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/golive/
• http//tinyurl.com/d526e
• Providers providing free ASP.NET 2.0 hosting
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/hosters/
• http//tinyurl.com/amx35

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News

• Next meeting on Tuesday, June 21st at POSK,
  Hammersmith
• Topics to include
• Compression decompression
• RemObjects Chrome
• Home grown Web development components
• Real world operator overloading
• Full agenda at
• http//richplum.net/meeting/20050621.pdf

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News

• Beer makes you clever official
• http//www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/29/booze_make
  s_you_clever
• http//tinyurl.com/daho8
• That's to say, a Swedish team has shown that mice
  fed with moderate amounts of alcohol grew new
  nerve cells in the brain
• it's possible that the extra cells might help
  with learning and memory

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