The Developers Group http:www'richplum'net

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

12th April, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith
Group Leader Brian Long http//blong.com
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Agenda

• 100 - 200 Welcome, News Problem Clinic
• 200 - 255 An Introduction to Using
  Arcana Components to Develop Intraweb
  Applications Russell Weetch
• 255 - 315 Tea/Coffee Biscuits

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• 315 - 405 Address Formatting
  Components Sandy McCourt
• 405 - 500 Yes, No or Maybe Joanna Carter
• 500 - 505 Brief Fidget Break
• 505 - 600 Compact Framework In
  C Jim Cooper

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News

• DevCon (née BorCon) 2005 announced
• To be held in San Francisco
• 7th 10th November
• Focusing on developers (not managers)
• http//www.borlandevents.com/devcon05

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• Delphi 2005 Update Pack 2 has been released
• http//www.borland.com/products/downloads/register
  ed/download_delphi.html
• Fixes many problems!
• Keep posting issues in Quality Central

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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
  onlinehttp//codingslave.blogspot.com/2005/03/q-
  wheres-it-going.html

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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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• MSDN Technical Briefing at Microsoft on Thursday
  12th May, 0930-1630Visual C and Windows
  Forms in Visual Studio 2005 User Group Tour
• The Visual C and Windows Forms teams are coming
  to a city near you! Sign up now for this full day
  event covering Visual C and Windows Forms
  enhancements in Visual Studio 2005. Youll get
  one-of-a-kind expert advice directly from the
  product team on how to build powerful
  applications that leverage the .NET Framework
  2.0.
• Registration
• https//msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.
  aspx?cultureen-GBeventid118758224
• http//tinyurl.com/55rga

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• Free event at Microsoft on Saturday 14th
  May0930-1630 (welcome time at
  0900)DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper!
• For the first time ever in the UK, Microsoft is
  hosting a unique, event for Developers to learn,
  share and hear from other Developers - NO
  Microsoft speakers will present.
  DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper is designed to be an
  informal day the agenda will be determined by
  the developer community. You will have the
  opportunity to see new faces present in a relaxed
  atmosphere. Activities will include
  presentations on a wide range of topics, a
  networking area and fun zone. And as its often
  its hard to justify a day off work to attend
  training and events, the DeveloperDeveloperDevelop
  er day is being held on a Saturday and is FREE.
• Registration
• https//msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.
  aspx?cultureen-GBeventid118757999
• http//tinyurl.com/6e8vs

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• Next meeting on Monday, May 16th at Microsoft
  Campus, Building 3
• Topics to include
• Driving Office with Visual Studio
• MS Windows Installer
• .NET ClickOnce
• Registry delvings
• Full agenda at http//richplum.net/meeting/2005051
  6.pdf

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• As .NET 2.0 Beta 2 nears readiness/is ready, we
  see that MS are dropping the .NET moniker
• VB.NET (aka Visual Fred) -gt Visual Basic
• JScript.NET -gt Jscript
• Some feature drop
• ENC for C
• Performance enhancements, e.g. in JIT

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• Beer not fattening official
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4329323.stm
• What actually causes the beer belly is the
  overwhelming desire to partake of an enormous
  kebab or plate of curry after a particularly
  robust session, the BBPA (British Beer Pub
  Association) says

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