Oregon Delphi User Group

Steve Garland from ASTA Technology Group will present his company’s Flagship Products ASTA 2.6 and ASTA InterOp for Linux and Windows. Throughout the presentation, Rob Schuff will highlight ASTA in use in a real-world Medical Research application currently used at the Oregon Health & Science University’s General Clinical Research Center. ASTA has been in development since 1997 after Delphi Chief Architect Chuck Jazdzewski visited the Boise Delphi User Group and told us about the new open TDataSet model in Delphi 3 along with the new borland sockets.

The subject of this Month’s meeting will be the newly released Version 3 of DBISAM. Homer Jones will cover what is now the beta release of the next Version. An important new feature of Version 3 is the Client/Server option. That will be covered during the presentation, along with the new Desktop release. There are some great new features that should make Delphi and C++ Builder developers smile. Here are just a few: No DE required, Database engine compiles into your project (no external DLL), highly SQL-92 compliant, no distribution royalties, and great developer support.

You’ve installed Delphi, you’ve built a few cool programs, and you’re ready for more! Delphi has one of the greatest IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) and beyond the menus lie many hot keys, short-cuts, and programming tricks that will enhance your productivity. Come share your techniques and listen to others with David Cornelius at the keyboard. We’ll cover such things as Window and palette arrangement Keyboard hot-keys IDE plug-ins Programming styles for enhanced readability Uses for the Tag property Typed-constant tricks PRESENTER David Cornelius has been a developer for 15 years working mostly on the DOS and Windows platforms using Borland’s Pascal compilers.

We hear a lot about multitier applications and Borland’s Multitier Distributed Application Services Suite (MIDAS) is an excellent tool to create and deliver them with Delphi. Come hear an introductory level presentation of the benefits Delphi developers have using MIDAS to implement their multitier solutions. We will discuss the purpose and use of various MIDAS components, general information about multitier application design, and walk through the code of a small multitier application.

Nevrona Designs will be presenting a talk on Internet Direct (Indy) and other open source Internet components available in Inprise/Borland products. Also, an overview of their new product release Rave Reports 4.0 will be presented. Rave Reports allows you to transform your database into useful information and gives you the freedom to present it to your users over the web in the format they desire. Additionally, one of our lucky members will receive a FREE Rave 4.