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And now the news from VODC in Germany
Dateline - 21:30 Cologne Germany
Nachricht am 09.11.06 in der englischsprachigen Newsgroup gepostet von John Parker
As we reach the end of the second day of the German VODC conference, I would
like to share with you all an update on the news.
This has been another great conference and the organising team have done a
wonderful job. There has always been plenty to see in each of the time slots
and the hardest decision was choosing between the sessions. As a conference
organiser myself, I know just how hard the team have had to work to make
this conference as good as it is.
In the opening session the Development Team presented the current status of
both Visual Objects and Vulcan.NET.
Robert van der Hulst showed the current build of VO 2.8, which focuses on
making the IDE a more productive environment. As well as the many bug fixes,
this new version features an "all new" source code editor, debugger and
error browser. VOPS subscribers will soon be working with the new version
and general availability is anticipated to be the first quarter of 2007.
Next up was Paul Piko who demonstrated the Vulcan.Net Transporter. This
utility is designed to achieve two goals. The first is to provide a series
of code improvements that are applied directly to the source code in a
selected VO repository. These improvements arise from the continued
tightening of the language, which assists the compiler in producing a more
robust output. The second goal is to extract the entities from the VO
project and automatically create a Vulcan.NET Visual Studio solution. The
Transporter also takes the proprietary VO window entity and produces source
code that uses the .NET framework classes so that it can be edited using the
Visual Studio form designer.
Last of all, Don Caton presented the current status of Vulcan.NET. The most
recent milestones include the support for codeblocks and the macro compiler.
Vulcan's implementation of macro support has gone beyond the limitations
that are in Visual Objects. In the new compiler, any public function, class
or class member can be invoked, as well as any .NET framework call, any
Vulcan runtime function, or any method in another class library. General
availability of Vulcan.NET is expected during the second quarter of 2007.
All attendees were handed a bound printed copy of "Vulcan.NET At Warp
Speed",
the 173 page getting started guide. A PDF version of this book will be
available to everyone for download. The URL will be announced here in the
near future.
Over these two days I have talked with several attendees who have been very
excited about the Vulcan.NET applications that they have already created.
These ranged from a mobile device application accessing SQLMobile right up
to a new 30,000 line desktop application.
Finally, on behalf of the Development Team and all of the attendees, I would
like to take the opportunity to thank the conference organisers, Sonja
Schletterer, Rudiger Kardel and team leader, Dieter Crispien who have done
such a great job.
Well, that's all for now,
John
VODC (englisch)