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C4D - Kim Madsen
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C4D - Kim Madsen
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A report from the danish 'BorCon'... alias the DK Delphi 8 for dotNet release2003-11-18 11:18:34 PM delphi29 A couple of interesting points IMO which should ease the minds of many people. Read it on news://news.components4developers.com in the components4developers.public.non-technical newsgroup. -- best regards Kim Madsen XXXX@XXXXX.COM www.components4developers.com The best components for the best developers kbmMW - RAD n-tier kbmMemTable - High performance memory table kbmWABD - RAD web development kbmX10 - RAD house automation |
Kostya Poukhov
Delphi Developer |
2003-11-18 11:32:20 PM
Re:A report from the danish 'BorCon'... alias the DK Delphi 8 for dotNet releaseQuoteA couple of interesting points IMO which should ease the minds of many Borland's ng? My newsreader is being overstuffed with all those extra newsservers and there is less chance to find articles when googling for example. Kostya |
Jon Springs
Delphi Developer |
2003-11-19 04:27:31 AM
Re:A report from the danish 'BorCon'... alias the DK Delphi 8 for dotNet release
It's actually in the components4developers.kbmmw.non-technical news group.
"C4D - Kim Madsen" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM (kbmMW/kbmMemTable/kbmWABD/kbmX10)>writes QuoteA couple of interesting points IMO which should ease the minds of many |
Lauchlan M
Delphi Developer |
2003-11-19 06:08:40 AM
Re:A report from the danish 'BorCon'... alias the DK Delphi 8 for dotNet release
"C4D - Kim Madsen" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM
(kbmMW/kbmMemTable/kbmWABD/kbmX10)>writes QuoteA couple of interesting points IMO which should ease the minds of many seminar I attended yesterday: << The .NET framework includes, in a backdoor way, MIDAS. This is an upshot of the US$128M settlement with MS a few years ago - apparently this was part of the IP/patent dispute. Anyhow, the MIDAS fundtionality has been included as part of the .NET with 'dataset' as the client dataset equivalent. Lino had a powerpoint slide detailing a comparison of MIDAS methods with their .NET equivalents. Incidently, Lino had a bunch of .NET stuff that could 'knock people's socks off'. He previewed Whidbey and the ASP.NET 2.0 stuff as well as Delphi.NET, and MS have totally overhauled ASP.NET in an incredible, thoughtful and productive way. They have totally redone forms authentication so it no longer requires cookies and can be done in one line (anyone who has tried to do forms authentication without using cookies, like me, will appreciate this!). They have totally overhauled grids so you can set up paging, sorting etc with essentially one property. They added new components (I think 150) including content management and one to display a path with links (eg Home ->Products ->MyProduct with all the names as links to that page) etc etc. Good stuff. Lino, who was previously enthusiastic about IW (he wrote a training manual for it) sees the writing on the wall for it in the long term, because MS have done a really good job with this ASP.NET 2.0 release. Remoting was hard to pay attention to (it is kind of technical in .NET so didn't really command people's attention in the way it could have otherwise <g>) but was way powerful. Lino's advanced component development (is there any other kind in .NET?) was really informative but technically heavy with a lot to take in as well. Lino also demonstrated how you can incorporate the object inspector and any .NET compiler (Delphi, C# etc) into your own program and type in Delphi code in a memo in your client application, and have that compiled on the fly and executed from within your program. Another trick allowed you to add properties to existing components in the IDE at design time without inheriting/subclassing the component. Quote> |