DotNET Developers Group http://www.dotnetuk.net

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• DotNET Developers Group http//www.dotnetuk.net

25th September, 2003 Meeting Microsoft Campus,
Chicago Room 2
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Agenda

• 100 - 115 Welcome, Introduction News
• 115 - 200 Problem Clinic
• 200 - 245 What's Coming In SQL
  Server Simon Davies, Microsoft
• 245 - 305 Tea/Coffee Biscuits
• 305 - 350 What's Coming In SQL Server
  (cont.) Simon Davies, Microsoft

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Agenda

• 355 - 455 Databases - The .NET Way Rob
  Bracken
• 500 - 600 Data-Aware Controls in
  .NET Steve Scott
• 600 - 645 Dinner
• 645 - 745 ADO.NET Connection Pooling Guy
  Smith-Ferrier

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News

• Whats happening inthe .NET world?

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PDC 03
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003
October 2630Los Angeles Convention Center,
California Six technical tracks with over 120
sessions A "must-attend" event for enterprise
developers, software architects, software
engineers, Web developers, Web development
managers wanting to stay in sync with Microsoft's
platform roadmap http//msdn.microsoft.com/events/
pdc
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PDC 03
Learn about existing Microsoft technologies Learn
about forthcoming Microsoft technologies Whidbey
Visual Studio.NET 2004 Yukon SQL
Server.NET Longhorn Windows 2005 Indigo
next generation .NET Web services
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Microsoft Web Shows
http//msdn.microsoft.com/showsandwebcasts
Latest episode (August) Managed Code, 1 hr. 37
mins. Includes Brad Abrams Anders Hejlsberg
discussing architectural issues Nick Hodapp
Chris Sells discussing programming benefits
http//msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/episode035
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Microsoft Web Shows
http//msdn.microsoft.com/showsandwebcasts
Recent showsAug 7, .NET Compact Framework
for Next Generation Smartphone devices Aug 28
Sep 3, Don Box, SOAP Service Oriented
Architecture Programming Pts 1 2
http//msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/archive.aspx
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Borland Janeva 2.5
Borland Janeva delivers seamless,high-performance
interoperability between Microsoft .NET
Framework applications and J2EE/CORBA
infrastructures

• Official support for
• BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and 7.0
• IBM WebSphere Server 5.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

http//www.borland.com/products/downloads/download
_janeva.html
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Borland IBM Hold Hands
Borland's C Builder packages will now ship with
IBM's DB2 Universal Database System IBM will
include C Builder with all DB2 shipments
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Borland Together
Borland Deepens Support for Enterprise Adoption
of Microsoft .NET Framework Technologies by
launching Borland Together Edition for
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, the first
independent, integrated design, modeling code
environment for the Microsoft .NET Framework to
simultaneously connect enterprise architects
developers through Borland Together pioneered
Borland LiveSource technology. (Borland
LiveSource technology helps to keep models and
code synchronized).
http//www.borland.com/together
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Vertigo Software have ported the Quake II engine
to Managed C
http//www.vertigosoftware.com/quake2.htm