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18 th July, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading. The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net. Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com. Agenda. 12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic 1:00 - 2:10 – A Multi-Database Upgrader Utility Peter Goddard
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18th July, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com
Agenda • 12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic • 1:00 - 2:10 – A Multi-Database Upgrader UtilityPeter Goddard • 2:10 - 2:30 – Tea/coffee & biscuits • 2:30 - 3:35 – Migration from Legacy Data-Files to Relational DatabasesRoland Potter
Agenda • 3:35 - 3:40 – Brief fidget break • 3:40 - 4:45 – Making Trees With SQLAdam Brett • 4:45 - 4:50 – Brief Fidget Break • 4:50 - 6:00 – Developing ASP.NET Websites using DotNetNukeJohn Braga
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.
News • 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 C++Builder • RemObjects Chrome • .NET • C# • ASP.NET
News • 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
News • 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-WM&role=attend&pw=WEFLYPASSENGER • http://tinyurl.com/axwhy • Requires Media Player 9 or later • Live Meeting 2005 Meeting Console: • http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP012036181033.aspx • http://tinyurl.com/dag7e
News • Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology Preview available now! (ish) • Delphi 2005 registered users area: http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/registered/download_delphi.html • Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN
News • 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
News • ASP.NET Security Best Practices Masterclass with Michael Li • October 3rd, Microsoft Office, Soho • http://www.richplum.co.uk/meeting/20051003.pdf
News • 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/?p=105
News • 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
News • 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/visualstudio2005
News • Add ICE entry to your mobile phone contact database • In Case of Emergency • For multiple contacts add ICE, ICE2, ICE3, etc.