1. DotNET Developers Group http://www.dotnetuk.net
25th September, 2003 Meeting
Microsoft Campus, Chicago Room 2

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

3. 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

4. News
What’s happening in the .NET world?

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Borland Janeva 2.5
Borland Janeva delivers seamless, high-performance interoperability between Microsoft .NET Framework applications and J2EE/CORBA infrastructures
Official support for:
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and 7.0
IBM WebSphere Server 5.0
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

10. 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

11. 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).

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