Oregon Delphi User Group

Borland Delphi 7 Studio Architect delivers new, fully integrated technologies for increased developer productivity. Get your applications ready for the path to Microsoft .NET with the Delphi 7 Studio migration kit. Learn what is new and improved in the latest Delphi release. Delphi7 Migration Path to .NET Cover COM .NET Interop. Language additions to support .NET Overview of ASP.NET Overview of Windows Forms Overview of .NET Web Services RAD Web Development using IntraWeb and Web-Snap Web Services Support in Delphi7 Overview of DataSnap and dbExpress dbExpress connectivity components Data management with ClientDataSets and SimpleDataSets Overview of ModelMaker (UML Modeling Tool) Cover various diagrams/patterns Refactoring Delphi code Cross Platform Development using CLX Visual Reporting with Rave Visual report designer (End User functionality) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) development with Bold for Delphi A copy of Delphi 7 Architect will be given away along with some other prizes!

It’s an understatement to say that there is a lot of excitement mounting for Borland’s Delphi and C++Builder products on Linux. Linux itself is nothing short of a phenomenon rising out of obscurity just a few years ago, to be the hottest topic in every computer-related periodical available. However, the biggest deficit of this free and stable operating system is the lack of applications. Borland aims to change all that!

Digital Metaphors, the publishers of ReportBuilder, are sponsoring the pizza for this event in exchange for us showing off their product. And they have a very good product! Practically the standard for reporting under Delphi, ReportBuilder is a powerful design tool for creating complex reports. There will be several trial copies of ReportBuilder to hand out, and one lucky person will get a full, licensed copy of ReportBuilder Pro, a $500 Value!

David Cornelius and Homer Jones (ODUG coordinator and assistant) would like to present some ideas about growing the Oregon Delphi User Group into a larger, perhaps more formal organization. Several ideas have been tossed around and we would like some discussion and feedback from you, the members of the group. Please join us at 6:00 PM for this important meeting. Pizza will be served and the regular meeting will follow.

Delphi provides several useful facilities for streamlining application development. In this presentation, we’ll explore several techniques used in the development of a multi-tier medical research application. Topics covered include: Using non-visual and visual inheritance Custom Form properties and events (available in the object inspector) Using the open Tools API to create form experts Using Patterns. If time allows, we will demonstrate the effect of these techniques in an actual application designed for a busy medical research facility.

What does an NT Service, a Socket, ADO, and XML have to do with each other? All four technologies are well supported by Delphi and all being utilized as part of one IVR application at Interactive Northwest. David just completed his first Windows NT Service application–and learned a LOT! He would like to share his experience with the group to help make others aware of issues lurking in the shadows of this type of beast.

Have you ever wanted to embed an InterBase installation along with user, database and table creation within the installation of your Delphi application? Obstacles, caveats and possible solutions will be explored. Although Wise Installation Systems will be utilized for part of the solution, the concepts should be able to be carried over to any installation tool. PRESENTER Jeff Sohler has considerable experience with Oracle and has worked with Delphi off and on since it’s inception.

Ed ran into quite a problem while trying to attach Word documents to an Interbase database—nothing seemed to work. He’ll show us the method that finally did the trick. He’ll also show the general outline of his system and the objects used. This is very extensive with about 50 forms and 50 tables. All of these are tied together with the users always having the same look and feel no matter where they are in the system.

Two medical applications will be discussed. The first application, named Bambi, is basically complete except for annual maintenance and can be seen at www.Bio-Optics.com. Bambi is used for evaluating the health of the cornea and diagnosing eye disease. Bambi captures video images of a monolayer of cells of the cornea of the eye from special corneal microscopes, enhances the image if desired, and allows morphometric parameters (number of cells/mm2, variation of cell sizes, etc.

Moving your applications from troublesome Paradox files to robust InterBase? What are some of the things you will encounter? After just finishing up such an application, David will show why you will need stored procedures and triggers when you’ve lived just fine without them before. PRESENTER David Cornelius has been a developer for 15 years working mostly on the DOS and Windows platforms using Borland’s Pascal compilers. He is currently consulting through ATSI Group.

How many Environment or Editor options have you looked at? Do you have any Delphi Plug-ins installed? David will explain how enhancing Delphi 5’s IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, has helped him increase productivity. Two plug-ins, GExperts and CodeRush>, will show the incredible power of this RAD environment and expand your idea of productivity. PRESENTER David Cornelius has been a developer for 15 years working mostly on the DOS and Windows platforms using Borland’s Pascal compilers.

Come and discover the industry’s first RAD Web Services platform! Learn how Delphi 6 makes next generation e-business development a snap, with BizSnap, WebSnap, and DataSnap. Build Web Services and consumers using industry standard XML, WSDL, and other protocols with BizSnap! See how Delphi brings RAD to the Web development team with WebSnap! Learn how Delphi enables you to enter new markets and increase your return on investment by combining with Kylix to use a single code base to develop cross platform Linux/Windows Applications.

Chuck Vertrees from Extended Systems, Inc. will be presenting a technical overview and demonstration of Advantage Database Server and XTNDConnect RPM. Don’t miss this informative presentation covering all areas of Delphi development for client/server, n-tier and mobile/wireless environments. Valuable door prizes will be given!! Advantage Database Server Advantage Database Server is a scalable, high performance client/server DBMS for networked, standalone, Internet and mobile database applications. The Advantage Database Server supports the NetWare, Windows NT/2000, and Windows 95/98 operating systems.

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.