DotNET Developers Group http://www.dotnetuk.net 25th September, 2003 Meeting Microsoft Campus, Chicago Room 2

Agenda 1:00 - 1:15 – Welcome, Introduction & News 1:15 - 2:00 – Problem Clinic 2:00 - 2:45 – What's Coming In SQL Server Simon Davies, Microsoft 2:45 - 3:05 – Tea/Coffee & Biscuits 3:05 - 3:50 – What's Coming In SQL Server (cont.) Simon Davies, Microsoft

Agenda 3:55 - 4:55 – Databases - The .NET Way Rob Bracken 5:00 - 6:00 – Data-Aware Controls in .NET Steve Scott 6:00 - 6:45 – Dinner 6:45 - 7:45 – ADO.NET Connection Pooling Guy Smith-Ferrier

News What’s happening in the .NET world?

PDC ’03 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 October 26–30 Los 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

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

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

Microsoft Web Shows http://msdn.microsoft.com/showsandwebcasts Recent shows: Aug 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

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

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

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

Vertigo Software have ported the Quake II engine to Managed C++ http://www.vertigosoftware.com/quake2.htm