The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net

12th June, 2006 MeetingMicrosoft, Reading

Group Leader Brian Longhttp://blong.com

AgendaAgenda

• 12:00 - 1:00 – Welcome, News &Problem Clinic

• 1:00 - 1:50 – Unravelling the mystery of Extensible

stylesheet transformations XSL(T) in Delphi

Steve Wilcox• 1:50 - 2:50 – Certificates Services -

Why and HowDave Ball

AgendaAgenda

• 2:50 - 3:10 – Tea, coffee & cake

• 3:10 - 4:10 – C# for Delphi Developers

Brian Long• 4:10 - 5:15 – Introduction to Firebird

and InterBaseJason Chapman

• 5:15 - 6:15 – Essentials of Hack Resistant AppsMarcus Perryman

NewsNews• Next meeting on Tuesday, July 11th at POSK, Hammersmith

• Theme of the day has been constructed to issues raised by members

• A single application built using different technologies and different IDEs

• Full agenda available (soonish) at:• http://www.richplum.co.uk/meetings/20060711.pdf

NewsNews• 4 hotfixes to Delphi 2006 released

• http://info.borland.com/06/bds/bds2006_reg_updates_down.html

• Issues fixed relate to:• Building certain C++Builder apps

• Integration of CaliberRM 2 SP1

• Inability to run BDS after installing UP2

• International characters in HTML editor

• 2 other unofficial fixes lie waiting in the wings, one of which fixes a performance lag

NewsNews• Visual Studio 2005 includes great image

library• %VSInstallDir%\Common7\

VS2005ImageLibrary

• Vast improvement over graphics supplied with Visual Studio.NET 2003

• Included in Standard Edition and higher

• Not included in Express and Professional Editions

NewsNews• SSCLI v2 released

• The Shared Source CLI is a compressed archive of the source code to a working implementation of the ECMA CLI and the ECMA C# language specification

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/sscli

NewsNews• Windows PowerShell RC1 née Monad

aka MSH is available• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/

?linkid=64772

NewsNews• Microsoft Office 12 Beta 2 available

• www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/overview.mspx

• Over 500,000 downloads so far

NewsNews• Windows Vista Beta 2 available

• Can download beta or order a DVD

• www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready

• Over 18,000 DVD orders have already been made

NewsNews• 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....

NewsNews• WinFx has been renamed!• WinFx is now known as .NET 3.0• .NET 3.0 is .NET 2.0 + 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.”

NewsNews• Questions and answers:

• What version of the compilers are being used?.NET FX 3.0 is built on .NET FX 2.0 including the CLR and BCL. This means you will be using the 2.0 C# and VB compilers from the redist when using .NET FX 3.0.

• Will .NET FX 3.0 contain LINQ support?No. LINQ support is in the Orcas product which is shipping after .NET FX 3.0 (which ships in Vista).

• What directory will .NET FX 3.0 be installed to?We have been working on the naming changes in the product since the decision was made. After this is done it will live in %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\V3.0. This should hopefully be in the next public CTP we release.

NewsNews• VS 2005 docs not good enough?

• You can now extend them as the MSDN Wiki Beta

• msdnwiki.microsoft.com/en-us/mtpswiki

• Covers both VS help and .NET help

NewsNews• TechEd is on right now in Boston

• And we aren’t there • Enjoy the best bits virtualteched.com

NewsNews• Charles Petzold

has a nice tattoo:

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