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

2. 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

3. 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

4. News
Installaware ( 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.

5. 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

6. News 24 Hours of Delphi BDNRadio event held on 13th July
Many Delphi luminaries involved
Recordings of all sessions available at:

7. 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
id=WEFLY247-WM&role=attend& pw=WEFLYPASSENGER
Requires Media Player 9 or later
Live Meeting 2005 Meeting Console:

8. News
Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology Preview available now! (ish)
Delphi 2005 registered users area:
Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN

9. 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:

10. News ASP.NET Security Best Practices Masterclass with Michael Li
October 3rd, Microsoft Office, Soho

11. News The second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day is coming.
Scheduled for October 22nd
To be held at Microsoft office, Reading
To contain 30 minute and minute sessions
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12. 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

13. News
Microsoft e-Learning is offering free 90 day subscriptions to eLearning courses on VS2005 and SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005.

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

15. News