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The Developers Group http: //www. richplum. net 20 th September, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith Group Leader Brian Long http: //blong. com

Agenda • 1: 00 - 2: 00 – • 2: 00 - 2: 45 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic How To Write User Documentation Mike Unwalla • 2: 45 - 3: 05 – Tea/coffee & biscuits • 3: 05 – 4: 05 – Pete’s Home Videos (and Windows Media Centre) Pete Sykes

Agenda • 4: 05 - 4: 10 – Brief fidget break • 4: 10 - 4: 55 – Spreadsheet Components In Applications Steve Wilcox • 4: 55 - 5: 00 – Brief Fidget Break • 5: 00 - 6: 00 – Delphi and Open. GL – an Introduction to 3 D Graphics Christopher Gold and Maciek Dakowicz

News • 24 Hours of Delphi BDNRadio event held on 13 th July • Many Delphi luminaries involved • Official recordings of all sessions available at: • http: //bdn. borland. com/article/ 0, 1410, 33109, 00. html

News • BDNRadio – 3 “channels” available around the clock All interviews from 24 Hours of Delphi broadcast: mms: //bdntv. borland. com/delphi 24 hrs • All Delphi content: mms: //bdntv. borland. com/delphi • All Java content: mms: //bdntv. borland. com/java •

News • Delphi for. NET Compact Framework Technology Preview available now! • Delphi 2005 registered users area: http: //www. borland. com/products/ downloads/registered/ download_delphi. html • Tutorial posted by David Clegg on BDN: http: //bdn. borland. com/article/ 0, 1410, 33109, 00. html

News • Next meeting on Tuesday, October 17 th at Microsoft, Reading • Topics to include • • • ECO II Pocket. PC interaction Rem. Objects ADO. NET 2 And more besides • Full agenda available at: • http: //richplum. net/meeting/20051017. pdf

News • ASP. NET Security Best Practices Masterclass with Michael Li • October 3 rd, Microsoft Office, Soho • http: //www. richplum. co. uk/meeting/2005 1003. pdf

News • PDC is over • However all the slides are online: http: //microsoftpdc. com/content/ downloads. aspx

News • The second Developer day is coming. • Scheduled for October 22 nd • To be held at Microsoft office, Reading • To contain 30 minute and 60 -75 minute sessions • http: //www. developerday. co. uk

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

News (Vista cont. ) • The UX (user experience) guidelines are called AERO: • Authentic Energetic • Reflective • Open • • Direct 3 D 10 is now called WGF 2. 0 (Windows Graphics Foundation 2. 0)

News • Subsequent versions of Delphi, starting with De. Xter, will at last support Microsoft Active Accessibility • Action. Bands have had MSAA support added, which trickles through to the IDE

News • Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch date announced as 7 th 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 e. Learning courses on VS 2005 and SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005. • https: //www. microsoftelearning. com/ visualstudio 2005

News • Altova have released their XML engines (as used in XMLSpy et al) for free download: http: //www. altova. com/altovaxml. html • Altova. XML 2005 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

News • Vo. IP is clearly big business • e. Bay is to buy Skype (http: //www. skype. com) for $2. 6 billion (!!!)

News • Add ICE entry to your mobile phone contact database • In Case of Emergency • For multiple contacts add ICE, ICE 2, ICE 3, etc. • N. B. The recent email that claimed this was a spoof

News • Having a walk outdoors in nice weather makes you feel good • It’s a fact! • http: //abcnews. go. com/Technology/ Dye. Hard/story? id=223505&page=1

News • Warning! Wear a hard hat if you are planning on going to Oxford

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