1. The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net
17th October, 2005 Meeting
Microsoft, Reading
Group Leader Brian Long

2. Agenda
12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic
1:00 - 2:00 – Talking to PocketPCs Jim Cooper
2:00 - 2:05 – Brief Fidget Break
2:05 - 2:35 – A Quick Look At DeXter Jason Vokes
2:35 - 2:55 – Tea/coffee & biscuits

3. Agenda
2:55 - 3:55 – Enterprise Core Objects: What it is, How you can use it, What it's been used for already Jason Vokes
3:55 - 4:00 – Brief Fidget Break
4:00 - 5:00 – Remoting With RemObjects Rafe Aldridge
5:00 - 6:00 – What's New in ADO.NET 2.0? Alex Homer

4. News
Delphi for .NET Compact Framework Technology Preview available now!
Delphi 2005 registered users area: downloads/registered/ download_delphi.html
Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN: 0,1410,33066,00.html

5. News

6. News Delphi 2006 announced on 10th October Features:
VCL Live Guidelines
Live Templates
Block Completion
New Refactorings
Push / Pull Members
Extract Interface
Extract SuperClass
Safe Delete
FastCode Memory Manager
Faster Startup
Stable IDE
Together for Delphi and C#

7. News Delphi 2006 features: ECO in all editions ECO III State Machines
O/R Mapping
Transparent Persistency
Object Transactions
Class Modelling
ECO III State Machines
ECO III Domain Patterns
ASP.NET ECO AutoForms
Database Explorer also shows dbExpress
SQL Server Unicode in dbExpress
BDP Connection Pooling
BDP SQL Tracing
BDP DataHub Error Reconciliation
New BDP Drivers: SQL Server 2005, MySQL

8. News
PDC is over
However all the slides are online: downloads.aspx

9. News
Windows Longhorn* was officially renamed on 22nd July to Windows Vista:
Indigo is now called WCF (Windows Communication Foundation): connected
Avalon is now called WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation): experience * Note: Longhorn code name not original...

10. News (Vista cont.)
The UX (user experience) guidelines are called AERO:
Authentic
Energetic
Reflective
Open
Direct3D10 is now called WGF 2.0 (Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0)

11. News
Altova have released their XML engines (as used in XMLSpy et al) for free download:
AltovaXML2005 includes engines for:
XML validating parser
XSLT 1.0
XSLT 2.0 (schema-aware)
XQuery 1.0
Can be accessed from:
Command line
COM interfaces
Java interfaces
.NET interfaces

12. News The second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day is coming. Soon.
Scheduled for this Saturday (October 22nd)
To be held here at Microsoft office, Reading
To contain 30 minute and 60 minute sessions

13. News The next BDN Radio extravaganza will be 24 Hours of BDS 2006
Scheduled for 24th October
Keep an eye on and/or

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

15. News Next meeting on Tuesday, November 15th at POSK, Hammersmith
Topics to include
What’s new in Visual Studio 2005
Using Visual Studio 2005
Advanced RichEdit Capabilities
Advantage Database Server
And more besides
Full agenda available at:

16. News