The Developers Group http:www'richplum'net

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

11th September, 2006 Meeting Microsoft, Reading
Group Leader Brian Long http//blong.com
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Agenda

• 1200 - 100 Welcome, News Problem Clinic
• 100 - 115 Introduction to Phlab
• 115 - 225 Delphi (BDS) Win32
  VCL WebBroker Andrew Rowe
• 225 - 255 Break

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Agenda

• 255 - 400 Delphi (BDS) FCL ASP.NET
  1.1 Brian Long
• 400 - 500 C (BDS) FCL ASP.NET
  1.1 Brian Long
• 500 - 600 C (VS2005) FCL ASP.NET
  2.0 Roger Graham

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News

• Microsoft Consolas font now available
• Mono-spaced font
• Targets programmers
• http//www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fa
  milyid22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3
• http//tinyurl.com/kk9eb
• Requires Visual Studio in order to install!

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News

• Turbo is back!
• Turbo Delphi
• Turbo C
• Turbo Delphi for .NET
• Turbo C
• Two editions
• Professional US399
• Explorer FREE! (non-extensible)
• Only one Turbo product per computer
• http//www.turboexplorer.com

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• ECO III in Action Seminar
• At Borland UK office in Twyford, near Reading
• Tuesday 12th September............
• 0930-1600
• Jason Vokes and Gerard van der Pol
• Registration was by Internet, but maybe if you
  give them a call?

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• Nick Hodges (Delphi Product Manager) is creating
  30 Camtasia Delphi videos in 30 days
• Targeting beginners
• Full list (thus far) athttp//blogs.borland.com/
  nickhodges/articles/26687.aspx

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• Game developers, listen up
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express beta is out
• XNA XNAs 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

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• 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 Petzolds newWPF book.
• Petzolds new WPF book is out

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News

• WinFx now consists of
• WPF née Avalon
• WCF née Indigo
• WCS née InfoCard
• WWF née, er, I give up
• WinFx will ship with Vista and work on Windows
  XP/2003
• But....

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• WinFx has been renamed!
• WinFx is now known as .NET 3.0
• .NET 3.0 is .NET 2.0 WPF, WCF, WWF WCS
• The .NET Framework 3.0 is still comprised of the
  existing .NET Framework 2.0 components, including
  ASP.NET, WinForms, ADO.NET, additional base class
  libraries and the CLR, as well as new
  developer-focused innovative technologies in WPF,
  WCF, WF and WCS.

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• Masterclass with Brian Long
• Back To Basics with DelphiUpavon, Wednesday
  20th September
• Looking at
• VFI frames
• Actions and action managers
• Debugging
• Interfaces
• Multi-threading

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• 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

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• 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

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