The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net 21st June, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com

Agenda 1:00 - 2:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic 2:00 - 2:30 – Compression and Decompression Steve Wilcox 2:30 - 2:35 – Brief fidget break 2:35 - 3:15 – Introduction to Chrome Derek Davidson 3:15 - 3:35 – Tea/coffee & biscuits

Agenda 3:35 - 4:05 – Introduction to Chrome Derek Davidson 4:05 - 4:10 – Brief Fidget Break 4:10 - 5:10 – Portal Builder: Why we rolled our own web development environment in Delphi John Hair 5:10 - 6:00 – Operational Criteria Joanna Carter

News Installaware (http://www.installaware.com) have kindly donated copies of their software to be given away at each of the next few meetings 3 Express versions (RRP £55.55) 1 Developer version (RRP £195.80) Online purchase, employing the crossgrade purchase option yields 33% discount on RRP MSI-based LZMA/BCJ2 compression One-click patch creation Debugging Etc.

News June 29th, 18:30-21:00pm MSDN TechTalk: The Essentials of Hack Resistant Applications By Marcus Perryman at Microsoft London https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=118759244 http://tinyurl.com/dlklt

News Want to win a Smart Roadster valued at over £15,000? Enter the MS smart client competition: Set up your MSDN Connection profile Answer a few questions about smart client application development Other prizes include an Alienware PC, a Bluetooth enabled satellite navigation system, and 5 Axim X50v Pocket PCs www.microsoftsmartcar.com Competition closes 30th June

News Component devlopment Masterclasses on 5th and 6th July in Upavon, Wilstshire Delivered by Bob Swart and Brian Long Full Win32 day (10am – 6pm) Full .NET day (10am – 6pm) Coverage includes: run time and design time development VCL for Win32, VCL for .NET, WinForms and ASP.NET Full details at http://www.richplum.co.uk/meeting/20050705.pdf

News Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch date announced as 7th November 2005

News Microsoft e-Learning is offering free 90 day subscriptions to eLearning courses on VS2005 and SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005. https://www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio2005

News Next meeting on Tuesday, July 18th at Microsoft, Reading Topics to include Upgrading databases Migrating data-files to relational databases SQL trees DotNetNuke Web app development Full agenda at: http://richplum.net/meeting/20050718.pdf

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