Oregon Delphi User Group

Just discussions among friends.

There’s a pretty cool framework in .NET from DevExpress called XAF. We’ll start out with some tech talk and see if there’s anything Delphi related that we’d like to discuss. Then demonstrate some of the cool features XAF has to offer and why some of the things it’s trying to do may become the norm over time in software development.

Tonight, we’ll just hang out and talk. If someone would like to demo something they’ve been working on lately that would be wonderful. If nothing else we can fire up Delphi and play with the new REST features they’ve been adding. It might be fun to have a small database and just explore questions we might have about this technology together.

The interest in Pivot Tables was high. We saw demos last month and talked about concepts. This month we’ll see some real-life examples. Additionally, you might just see a hover-craft as a side-line interest!

Ron will lead a discussion on Pivot Tables and show some examples with the DevExpress Pivot Table. It allows you to dump data so your customers can create them using Excel’s Power Pivot feature. PRESENTER Ron Grove has been in the IT Services area for many years but has become a superb programmer with a strong interest in a broad spectrum of technologies including Delphi, .NET, and mobile.

This month, among other subjects, we’ll be looking at RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo. There’s a possibility of other subjects being brought to the table, but you’ll have to be there to find out! PRESENTER Ron Grove has been in the IT Services area for many years but has become a superb programmer with a strong interest in a broad spectrum of technologies including Delphi, .NET, and mobile. His career has recently taken an interesting turn for the better.

Have you ever heard the phrase, March is for Makers? With the rise of inexpensive and easy-to-use micro computers, people are enjoying the hobby of making all kinds of gadgets themselves. Arduino and Raspberry Pi are two of the most popular names in the maker space. So what does this have to do with Delphi? Nothing necessarily. However, some of our members have shown how to connect and control small devices with a Delphi program.

DevArt Software is once again sponsoring our meeting and will offer the standard 20% discount and one product license give-a-way to a randomly chosen attendee. We will have a discussion about their Data Access Tools, or DAC for short. I will show some demos, some prepared by DevArt, some written by myself. They will cover SQLServer, SQLite, VirtualTable, and MySQL database connections. We will also have some audience participation to cover Firebird support through IBDAC and will touch on Oracle considerations.

Let’s just talk about the state of development, tools in use today, what transpired over the last year, and where you think industry trends are headed this year.

This month, we have a couple of topics to cover. The first presentation will cover manipulating meta files, including reading them from a database, displaying them properly on various sized screens, and preparing them for printing. The really cool thing is a metafile permits consistent quality report printing regardless of monitor resolution, aspect ratio, or user selected enlargement (125%, 150%, etc.). They can be used with any report writer that supports a TImage equivalent.