The Developers Group http:www'richplum'net

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

15th November, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith
Group Leader Brian Long http//blong.com
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Agenda

• 100 - 200 Welcome, News Problem Clinic
• 200 - 230 Visual Studio 2005 Brian Long
• 230 - 250 Tea/coffee biscuits
• 250 - 350 Introduction to Advantage
  Database Server Joachim Dürr

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Agenda

• 350 - 355 Brief fidget break
• 355 - 455 Getting Richer Iain Macmillan
• 455 - 500 Brief Fidget Break
• 500 - 600 Building a simple, real- world
  data app. with Visual Studio 2005 (.NET
  2.0) Rob Bracken

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News

• 24 Hours of BDS 2006 BDNRadio event held on 24th
  October
• Many Delphi luminaries involved
• Official recordings of all sessions available at
• http//bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33368,00.ht
  ml

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News

• BDNRadio various channels available around
  the clock
• All interviews from 24 Hours of BDS 2006
  broadcast mms//bdntv.borland.com/dexter24
• All interviews from 24 Hours of Delphi broadcast
  mms//bdntv.borland.com/delphi24hrs
• All Delphi content mms//bdntv.borland.com/delphi
  
• All Java content mms//bdntv.borland.com/java

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News

• Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 (and .NET
  2.0) launched on 7th November 2005
• .NET Compact Framework 2.0 available for
  download. See http//blogs.msdn.com/mikezintel/arc
  hive/2005/10/29/486731.aspx

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News

• Express Editions - msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expr
  ess
• Windows Development
• Visual C 2005 Express Edition
• Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
• Visual C 2005 Express Edition
• Visual J 2005 Express Edition
• Web Development
• Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
• Database Development
• SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
• All free downloads (for a year)!

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• Breaking Changes in .NET Framework 2.0
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming
  /breakingchanges
• http//www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/Backwards
  1.1to2.0

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• LINQ Information, videos downloads available
  from http//msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future
  /linq

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• QuickReport 4 for VCL.NET
• To be launched December 1st 2005

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News

• Next meeting on Tuesday, January 17th at POSK,
  Hammersmith
• Topics to include
• The tools of the lone developer
• Generics and their uses
• Data modules
• The FastCode project and Delphi 2006
• Full agenda available at
• http//richplum.net/meetings/20060117.pdf

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News