The Developers Group http:www'richplum'net

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

17th October, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading
Group Leader Brian Long http//blong.com
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Agenda

• 1200 - 100 Welcome, News Problem Clinic
• 100 - 200 Talking to PocketPCs Jim
  Cooper
• 200 - 205 Brief Fidget Break
• 205 - 235 A Quick Look At DeXter Jason
  Vokes
• 235 - 255 Tea/coffee biscuits

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• 255 - 355 Enterprise Core Objects What
  it is, How you can use it, What it's been
  used for already Jason Vokes
• 355 - 400 Brief Fidget Break
• 400 - 500 Remoting With RemObjects
  Rafe Aldridge
• 500 - 600 What's New in ADO.NET
  2.0? Alex Homer

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News

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

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• 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

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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

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• PDC is over
• However all the slides are onlinehttp//microsof
  tpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx

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

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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)

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Next meeting on Tuesday, November 15th at POSK,
  Hammersmith
• Topics to include
• Whats 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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