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Dot. NET Developers Group http: //www. richplum. net 26 th June, 2003 Meeting POSK, Hammersmith, London

Agenda • 1: 00 - 1: 15 – Welcome, Introduction & News • 1: 15 - 2: 00 – Problem Clinic • 2: 00 - 2: 45 –. NET Language Interoperability • • Brian Long 2: 45 - 3: 05 – Tea/Coffee & Biscuits 3: 05 - 3: 55 – GDI+ Steve Tudor 4: 00 - 5: 00 – Sharp. Develop Rob Bracken 5: 05 - 6: 00 – Borland C#Builder Steve Scott

News • Borland’s “Project Sidewinder” aka C#Builder has been released to manufacturing • C#Builder is a multi-language development & design IDE for. NET, initially supporting C# (& VB. NET to a lesser degree) • It aims to be a. NET ALM (application lifecycle management) solution: • design, develop, test, deploy & collaborate

News • It provides tight integration between the modeling environment and the development environment • BDP provides access to various databases • Janeva technology integrates. NET with J 2 EE using a custom IIOP-based remoting channel • Analysts professing high expectations for Enterprise market share through Janeva

Reflector SDK Enhancement • Lutz Roeder’s Reflector now offers Delphi for. NET decompiler in SDK www. aisto. com/roeder/dotnet • Written by Peter Sawatzki • Updates available at: www. sawatzki. de/download. htm • This is a work in progress

DDG C# Advanced Training Day • A hands-on day-long training session • Aimed at taking the basic C# programmer and showing some of the more advanced aspects of the language • To be held in Upavon on 3 rd July • Places are limited • Details at: http: //www. richplum. net/meeting/20030703. asp

Agenda • Classes • • • Inheritance Member accessibility Polymorphism Properties Indexers Delegates & events Finalization Classes vs. structs Interfaces • Array parameters • XML documentation • Pre-processing directives • More exception handling • Assemblies • Building • Naming & versioning • Installing • Deployment