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11 th September, 2006 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 - 1:15 – Introduction to Phlab
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11th September, 2006 Meeting Microsoft, Reading The Developers Grouphttp://www.richplum.net Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com
Agenda • 12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic • 1:00 - 1:15– Introduction to Phlab • 1:15 - 2:25 – Delphi (BDS) Win32 VCL WebBroker Andrew Rowe • 2:25 - 2:55 – Break
Agenda • 2:55 - 4:00 – Delphi (BDS) FCL ASP.NET 1.1 Brian Long • 4:00 - 5:00 – C# (BDS) FCL ASP.NET 1.1 Brian Long • 5:00 - 6:00 – C# (VS2005) FCL ASP.NET 2.0Roger Graham
News • Microsoft Consolas font now available • Mono-spaced font • Targets programmers: • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3 • http://tinyurl.com/kk9eb • Requires Visual Studio in order to install!
News • Turbo is back! • Turbo Delphi • Turbo C++ • Turbo Delphi for .NET • Turbo C# • Two editions: • Professional – US$399 • Explorer – FREE! (non-extensible) • Only one Turbo product per computer • http://www.turboexplorer.com
News • ECO III in Action Seminar • At Borland UK office in Twyford, near Reading • Tuesday 12th September............ • 09:30-16:00 • Jason Vokes and Gerard van der Pol • Registration was by Internet, but maybe if you give them a call?
News • Nick Hodges (Delphi Product Manager) is creating 30 Camtasia Delphi videos in 30 days • Targeting beginners • Full list (thus far) at:http://blogs.borland.com/nickhodges/articles/26687.aspx
News • Game developers, listen up • Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express beta is out • XNA = XNA’s Not Acronymed • XNA lets you build games for Windows and Xbox 360 • XNA runs on Visual C# Express and latest DirectX updates • http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/XNA
News • Windows Vista RC1 is out • .NET 3.0 RC1 is out • Visual Studio Extensions for .NET 3.0 RC1 are out • Links to the .NET stuff available on http://www.charlespetzold.com/wpf,the web page of Petzold’s newWPF book. • Petzold’s new WPF book is out
News • Masterclass with Brian Long • “Back To Basics with Delphi”Upavon, Wednesday 20th September • Looking at: • VFI & frames • Actions and action managers • Debugging • Interfaces • Multi-threading
News • Double Masterclass with Bob Swart • Upavon, Mon/Tue 9th/10th October • “Distributed Database Applications” • Looking at: • Win32, .NET and ASP.NET • DataSnap, Remoting and RemObjects • “ASP.NET Techniques” • Looking at: • HTTP handlers & modules • Templates • BDP • AJAX
News • Next meeting on Monday, October 17th at POSK, Hammersmith • Agenda currently being worked on • To include: • AJAX • Database Workbench • And more! • Full agenda will be available at: • http://www.richplum.co.uk/meetings/20061017.pdf