1 The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net21st June, 2005 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith Group Leader Brian Long

2 Agenda 1:00 - 2:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic 2:00 - 2:30 – Compression and Decompression Steve Wilcox 2:30 - 2:35 – Brief fidget break 2:35 - 3:15 – Introduction to Chrome Derek Davidson 3:15 - 3:35 – Tea/coffee & biscuits

3 Agenda 3:35 - 4:05 – Introduction to Chrome Derek Davidson 4:05 - 4:10 – Brief Fidget Break 4:10 - 5:10 – Portal Builder: Why we rolled our own web development environment in Delphi John Hair 5:10 - 6:00 – Operational Criteria Joanna Carter

4 News Installaware (http://www.installaware.com) 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 June 29th, 18:30-21:00pm MSDN TechTalk: The Essentials of Hack Resistant Applications By Marcus Perryman at Microsoft London https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=

6 News Want to win a Smart Roadster valued at over £15,000?Enter the MS smart client competition: Set up your MSDN Connection profile Answer a few questions about smart client application development Other prizes include an Alienware PC, a Bluetooth enabled satellite navigation system, and 5 Axim X50v Pocket PCs Competition closes 30th June

7 News Component devlopment Masterclasses on 5th and 6th July in Upavon, Wilstshire Delivered by Bob Swart and Brian Long Full Win32 day (10am – 6pm) Full .NET day (10am – 6pm) Coverage includes: run time and design time development VCL for Win32, VCL for .NET, WinForms and ASP.NET Full details at

8 News Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch date announced as 7th November 2005

9 News Microsoft e-Learning is offering free 90 day subscriptions to eLearning courses on VS2005 and SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005. https://www.microsoftelearning.com/visualstudio2005

10 News Next meeting on Tuesday, July 18th at Microsoft, ReadingTopics to include Upgrading databases Migrating data-files to relational databases SQL trees DotNetNuke Web app development Full agenda at:

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