The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net 11th September, 2006 Meeting Microsoft, Reading 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 2.0 Roger 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! Two editions: Only one Turbo product per computer 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 new WPF book. Petzold’s new WPF book is out

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....

News 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.”

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” 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

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