DotNET Developers Group

DotNET Developers Group

http://www.dotnetuk.net

25
th

September, 2003 Meeting

Microsoft Campus, Chicago Room 2

Agenda

•
1:00
-

1:15
–


Welcome, Introduction & News


•
1:15
-

2:00
–


Problem Clinic


•
2:00
-

2:45
–


What's Coming In SQL Server




Simon Davies, Microsoft


•
2:45
-

3:05
–


Tea/Coffee & Biscuits


•
3:05
-

3:50
–


What's Coming In SQL Server



(cont.)




Simon Davies, Microsoft

Agenda

•
3:55
-

4:55
–

Databases
-

The .NET Way




Rob Bracken


•
5:00
-

6:00
–

Data
-
Aware Controls in .NET




Steve Scott


•
6:00
-

6:45
–

Dinner


•
6:45
-

7:45
–

ADO.NET Connection Pooling




Guy Smith
-
Ferrier

News

What’s happening in

the .NET world?

PDC ’03

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003
October 26
–
30

Los Angeles Convention Center, California

Six technical tracks with over 120 sessions

A "must
-
attend" event for enterprise developers,
software architects, software engineers, Web
developers, & Web development managers wanting
to stay in sync with Microsoft's platform roadmap

http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc

PDC ’03

Learn about existing Microsoft technologies

Learn about forthcoming Microsoft
technologies:

“Whidbey”
–

Visual Studio.NET 2004

“Yukon”
–

SQL Server.NET

“Longhorn”
–

“Windows 2005”

“Indigo”
–

next generation .NET Web services

Microsoft Web Shows

http://msdn.microsoft.com/showsandwebcasts

Latest episode (August):

Managed Code, 1 hr. 37 mins.

Includes Brad Abrams &

Anders Hejlsberg discussing
architectural issues &

Nick Hodapp & Chris Sells
discussing programming benefits

http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/episode035

Microsoft Web Shows

http://msdn.microsoft.com/showsandwebcasts


Recent shows:



Aug 7, .NET Compact Framework for Next
Generation Smartphone devices

Aug 28 & Sep 3, Don Box, SOAP: Service Oriented
Architecture & Programming Pts 1 & 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/archive.aspx

Borland Janeva 2.5

http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_janeva.html

Official support for:

•
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and 7.0

•
IBM WebSphere Server 5.0

•
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

Borland Janeva delivers seamless,

high
-
performance interoperability between
Microsoft .NET Framework applications and
J2EE/CORBA infrastructures

Borland & IBM Hold Hands

Borland's C# Builder packages
will now ship with IBM's DB2
Universal Database System

IBM will include C# Builder with
all DB2 shipments

Borland Together

Borland Deepens Support for Enterprise Adoption
of Microsoft .NET Framework Technologies by
launching Borland® Together® Edition for
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, the first
independent, integrated design, modeling & code
environment for the Microsoft .NET Framework to
simultaneously connect enterprise architects &
developers through Borland Together pioneered
Borland® LiveSource™ technology.

(Borland LiveSource technology helps to keep
models and code synchronized).

http://www.borland.com/together

Vertigo Software have ported the Quake II engine to Managed C++

http://www.vertigosoftware.com/quake2.htm