1. The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net
16th May, 2005 Meeting
Microsoft, Reading
Group Leader Brian Long

2. Agenda
12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic
1:00 - 2:10 – Driving MS Office with Visual Studio Mike Pelton
2:10 - 2:15 – Brief fidget break
2:15 - 3:15 – Windows Installer Rob Bracken

3. Agenda
3:15 - 3:40 – Tea/coffee & biscuits
3:40 - 4:55 – An Overview Of ClickOnce Deployment Guy Smith-Ferrier
4:55 - 5:00 – Brief Fidget Break
5:00 - 6:00 – Delving into the Registry Brian Long

4. News
Installaware ( have kindly donated 4 licenses 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.

5. News Bold is back (and free!) for Delphi 2005 Download link at:
Includes lots of never before released
source code
Includes examples

6. News APress release some of their books as free eBooks
Notable examples:
COM and .NET Interoperability
A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop
Oh, and there’s one on VB.NET too

7. News
Bob Reselman’s acclaimed novel Coding Slave about being a developer is available free online:

8. News Two new free .NET command-line tools available:
ILMerge – merge multiple .NET assemblies into one (was on MSR originally):
LibCheck – report assembly differences in terms of removed and added APIs

9. News
June 7th, 10:00-11:15pm:
TechNet Webcast: Understanding and Fighting Malware: Viruses, Spyware and Rootkits (Level 300)
Mark Russinovich, Chief Software Architect and Co-founder, Winternals Software

10. News .NET 2.0 Beta 2 was (eventually) signed off on 14th April
.NET Beta 2 GoLive:
Providers providing free ASP.NET 2.0 hosting:

11. News Next meeting on Tuesday, June 21st at POSK, Hammersmith
Topics to include
Compression & decompression
RemObjects Chrome
Home grown Web development components
Real world operator overloading
Full agenda at:

12. News Beer makes you clever: official
That's to say, a Swedish team has shown that mice fed with moderate amounts of alcohol grew new nerve cells in the brain
it's possible that “the extra cells might help with learning and memory”

13. News