Quem tiver a oportunidade e quiser, na próxima Borcon (Borcon2004) o Diamondback será ostensivamente demonstrado vejam o que a Borland tem a dizer sobre isto:
Delphi developers, BorCon will be the first public showing anywhere of DiamondBack, the code name for the next version of Delphi. BorCon is the only place to learn all the exciting new features coming in Diamondback. Don´t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get an advance look at the future of Delphi!
See all the latest Delphi features in the DiamondBack preview at BorCon 2004.
Learn from in-depth DiamondBack tutorial sessions on:
2004 Overview of Delphi for the Microsoft .NET Framework
John Kaster — Borland
Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial provides a complete overview of the development areas of the Delphi IDE. Developing and debugging, WinForms, VCL for .NET, ASP.NET development, model-powered application development with ECO, Web Services, and database connectivity are all covered.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Delphi and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
2004 Saturday, September 11, 2004 — 2:00pm - 6:00pm
2012 ECO Boot Camp
Malcolm Groves — Borland
Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) brings the power and productivity of model-driven architecture to Delphi 8 and C#Builder. This tutorial equips you to start exploiting this technology in your applications and covers: the class designer; object constraint language; derived attributes and derived relationships; association classes; persistence; ECO services; UI support, including data binding and the ECO Extender components; and using ECO with ASP.NET.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of object-oriented concepts, as well as Delphi or C skills. No knoweldge of Bold, ECO or MDA required.
2012 Sunday, September 12, 2004 — 1:00pm - 5:00pm
3040 Microsoft .NET Framework Data Access
Ramesh Theivendran - Borland and Cary Jensen
Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
This tutorial introduces basic relational data access in the Microsoft .NET Framework and discusses the various components of distributed database application development. We explore .NET remoting, message queue, and Web Services for building distributed applications. The tutorial also introduces object data access in Longhorn.
Prerequisites: Microsoft .NET Framework knowledge helpful.
3040 Sunday, September 12, 2004 — 1:00pm - 5:00pm
3042 Complete ALM for the Microsoft .NET Framework
John Kaster — Borland
Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
This tutorial covers the complete Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration solution with the Delphi IDE, including development, requirements management, configuration management, modeling, testing and debugging, performance tuning, documentation, and deploying applications.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Delphi and Object Persistent Frameworks.
3042 Sunday, September 12, 2004 — 8:00am - 12:00pm
4000 Get Ready for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Danny Thorpe — Borland
Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Advanced.
Come find out what´s new and changing in the next major release of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with .NET CLR.
4000 Saturday, September 11, 2004 — 9:00am - 1:00pm
Learn from detailed DiamondBack technical sessions on:
1174 What´s New in Delphi
Allen Bauer — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session examines all of the new features of the Delphi IDE.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Delphi.
1174a Monday, September 13, 2004 — 10:00am - 11:15am
1174b Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 8:00am - 9:15am
2156 Introduction to Enterprise Core Objects (ECO)
Malcolm Groves — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) bring the power and productivity of model-driven architecture to Delphi 8 and C#Builder. This session provides an overview of the technologies ECO provides, giving you enough background so that you can explore this exciting technology further, either at other sessions in the conference or afterward.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of object-oriented concepts, as well as Delphi or C skills. No knowledge of Bold, ECO or MDA required.
2156a Monday, September 13, 2004 — 2:00pm - 3:15pm
2156b Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 8:00am - 9:15am
2172 ECO for ASP.NET
John Kaster — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session reveals how to build scalable, model-powered, distributed data applications that include browser-based clients using Enterprise Core Objects (ECO).
Prerequisites: Understanding of ASP.NET.
2172a Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 3:00pm - 4:15pm
2172b Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 1:15pm - 2:30pm
3128 Delphi IDE Features for ASP.NET Under the Hood
Jim Tierney — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Detailed information about Delphi IDE features for ASP.NET. Understand how Delphi works so that you can make it work for you.
Prerequisites: Experience with Delphi or C#Builder recommended.
3128 Monday, September 13, 2004 — 5:00pm - 6:15pm
3148 What´s New in the Delphi Compiler
Danny Thorpe — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Come see what´s cooking for language and compiler code generation enhancements in the next release of Delphi.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Delphi and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
3148a Monday, September 13, 2004 — 3:30pm - 4:45pm
3148b Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 8:00am - 9:15am
3196 Introduction to Refactoring
Jim Cooper — Falafel Software, Inc.
Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Refactoring is the art of transforming existing code to make it more maintainable and reliable without changing functionality. The techniques used also encapsulate programming best practices. We examine some of the more useful methods.
Prerequisites: Delphi development experience.
3196 Monday, September 13, 2004 — 2:00pm - 3:15pm
3208 Effective Delphi for .NET and C# Unit Testing with NUnit
Charlie Calvert — Falafel Software, Inc.
Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to create applications that are easy to test, and how to write tests that are easy to maintain. Unit testing is a fascinating technology that is designed to encourage developers to create easily reusable objects that promote proper object-oriented techniques.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Microsoft .NET Framework development in Delphi or C.
3208 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 9:30am - 10:45am
4100 Integrating into the Borland Data Provider
Ramesh Theivendran — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
In this session, we introduce the various interfaces for integrating into the Borland Data Provider and getting design-time, run-time, and tools integration into the Delphi and C#Builder IDE.
Prerequisites: Significant experience with Delphi, database development, and plug-in architectures
4100 Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 11:00am - 12:15pm
4108 Extending CaliberRM with Add-ins and Delphi
Micha Somers — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
Learn how to create a CaliberRM add-in with Delphi. This add-in enables us to create traces from our requirements (managed by CaliberRM) to external objects and perform operations on them.
Prerequisites: Experience using Delphi and COM.
4108a Monday, September 13, 2004 — 2:00pm - 3:15pm
4108b Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 1:15pm - 2:30pm
4110 Delphi for the Microsoft .NET Framework Open Tools API
Marco Cantu — Wintech Italia Srl
Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
More than in the past, the Delphi IDE allows programmers to write their own wizards and plug-ins.
Prerequisites: Good knowledge of Delphi programming.
4110 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 3:00pm - 4:15pm
4138 CodeDOM Delphi
Corbin Dunn — Borland
Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
This session covers the Document Object Model (DOM) used to parse and generate Delphi code and shows how the developer can use this tool to generate and handle Delphi code.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of the Delphi language and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
4138 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 9:30am - 10:45am
Save 66¬ on Delphi 8 plus Software Assurance. Conference attendees can order up to four copies with savings that will cover more than the cost of your flight and hotel. Software Assurance guarantees you all Delphi releases for 12 months, which will include DiamondBack.
Meet the team that builds Delphi. You can meet face to face with the engineers who work on DiamondBack at the Monday night Meet the Delphi Team session.
Come to BorCon 2004, where you can see Diamondback, learn everything about the new Delphi release, save money on Delphi, and meet directly with the engineers who build Delphi.