1. The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net
11th September, 2006 Meeting
Microsoft, Reading
Group Leader Brian Long

2. 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

3. Agenda
2:55 - 4:00 – Delphi (BDS) FCL ASP.NET Brian Long
4:00 - 5:00 – C# (BDS) FCL ASP.NET Brian Long
5:00 - 6:00 – C# (VS2005) FCL ASP.NET Roger Graham

4. News Microsoft Consolas font now available Mono-spaced font
Targets programmers:
Requires Visual Studio in order to install!

5. 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

6. 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?

7. News
Nick Hodges (Delphi Product Manager) is creating 30 Camtasia Delphi videos in 30 days
Targeting beginners
Full list (thus far) at:

8. 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

9. 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 the web page of Petzold’s new WPF book.
Petzold’s new WPF book is out

10. 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....

11. News WinFx has been renamed! WinFx is now known as .NET 3.0
.NET 3.0 is .NET 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.”

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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:

15. News