The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net 18th July, 2005 Meeting Microsoft, Reading Group Leader Brian Long http://blong.com

Agenda 12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic 1:00 - 2:10 – A Multi-Database Upgrader Utility Peter Goddard 2:10 - 2:30 – Tea/coffee & biscuits 2:30 - 3:35 – Migration from Legacy Data-Files to Relational Databases Roland Potter

Agenda 3:35 - 3:40 – Brief fidget break 3:40 - 4:45 – Making Trees With SQL Adam Brett 4:45 - 4:50 – Brief Fidget Break 4:50 - 6:00 – Developing ASP.NET Websites using DotNetNuke John Braga

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 Bob Swart and Brian Long have announced they are teaming up to provide training and consultancy services world-wide, covering subjects such as: Borland Delphi Borland Kylix Borland C++Builder RemObjects Chrome .NET C# ASP.NET

News 24 Hours of Delphi BDNRadio event held on 13th July Many Delphi luminaries involved Recordings of all sessions available at: http://www.omegaair.com/delphi http://24hours.rad-on.de

News WeFly247 Mobile Development Web Cast WeFly247 is an end-to-end sample application that aims to show the best new features available to developers targeting Microsoft platforms using Visual Studio 2005 In this web cast, we will explore the Windows Mobile-specific Pocket PC Attendant application https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join? id=WEFLY247-WM&role=attend& pw=WEFLYPASSENGER http://tinyurl.com/axwhy Requires Media Player 9 or later Live Meeting 2005 Meeting Console: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP012036181033.aspx http://tinyurl.com/dag7e

News Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology Preview available now! (ish) Delphi 2005 registered users area: http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/registered/download_delphi.html Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN

News Next meeting on Tuesday, September 20th at POSK, Hammersmith Topics to include Writing user documentation Windows Media Centre OpenGL 3D Graphics And more besides Full agenda will be shortly available at: http://richplum.net/meeting/20050920.pdf

News ASP.NET Security Best Practices Masterclass with Michael Li October 3rd, Microsoft Office, Soho http://www.richplum.co.uk/meeting/20051003.pdf

News The second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day is coming. Scheduled for October 22nd To be held at Microsoft office, Reading To contain 30 minute and 60-75 minute sessions http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/ ?p=105

News Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch date announced as 7th November 2005 .NET 2.0 (aka Whidbey) will implicitly be launched on the same date

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 Add ICE entry to your mobile phone contact database In Case of Emergency For multiple contacts add ICE, ICE2, ICE3, etc.

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