Learning Vulcan.NET? Isn't this just a new version of Visual Objects? So do I really need a three conference to learn what's new in this latest version of VO?! Completely off the track!

VODC 2010 in Stuttgart, starting November 10^th

In most cases starting your work with Vulcan.NET means making use of its VO compatibility. And even with this type of Vulcan start you are using a new developement environment (IDE). And how do I proceed if transporting my VO code does not work as smoothly as expected? Vulcan sometimes has to make a compromise. Complying with .Net requirements makes this necessary. And Vulcan IS fully .Net compliant. In consequence you will sometimes have to cope with subtleties. And this can easily take hours to find out. What am I supposed to do with my PUBLIC variables? Are codeblocks fully supported? What about doing tricks with pointers? Are there any catches with third party libraries I used to use in VO?

But you would not do the first step (moving from VO to Vulcan), if you did not want to advance to the huge unknown .NET territories. What are the recommended coding patterns? How am I supposed to find my way through thousands of new classes in .NET Base Class Library? What are the pitfalls with mixing old -VO- code and new -Vulcan.NET- code?

Many questions. And by far not all! And this means a lot of reasons to think about the benefits of Vulcan training or attending a Vulcan conference. Stuttgart, 11/10/10, 8.00 am. This is the time the conference will start with its opening session (for all attendees). The Vulcan devteam will report on the latest developments. After that the agenda will have three or four concurrent sessions all the way through until Friday shortly before noon. But don't worry, all sessions will be repeated. On Friday you will have sat through 13 sessions (including opening and closing sessions plus a MS keynote session). And if you still missed one you will get the session material (text and code) on CD. So dedicate some extra time after the event to work through the material provided by the speakers.

When driving into unfamiliar regions you will happily use a navigation system to find your best way. And for your way into your future as a software developer? We are sure a conference like VODC is a perfect means to make good progress! A three days conference which will cut down your learning curve by way more than 3 days considering you'll be able to avoid unproductive detours, isn't that a perfect navigation system in your Vulcan future?

As you like it

Our request for session proposals was a full success. And we listened to you! Much more than cutting edge technology, the majority requested topics related to the next steps after Transporter. As mentioned hundreds of times before, Transporter is NOT the big magician knowing nothing about what your code does but still having enough power to keep everything working as it did before, regardless of coding style and sometimes dirty tricks. And it is widely accepted that there is still some work to do after Transporter. But a big uncertainty seems to persist about these next steps. How much fiddling will be needed to get you going with fixing problems with add-on integration? Looking at a Transporter log with dozens of errors and warnings in a still unfamiliar programming language and development environment seems a bit scaring or demotivating at least. Some guidelines in this scenario are urgently needed. Willie Moore, who successfully migrated his VO projects to Vulcan, will give a session on "After Transporter" and will cover exactly these aspects. In addition, Fabrice Foray will show how to port VO code using FabPaint and FabZip to Vulcan.

An alltime favorite topic seems to be: Am I doing it the right way? A question hard to be answered sufficiently by a Vulcan and/or .NET newbie. And the expert who's job it is to look at code that frequently does things wrongly or at least not in the best possible manner is Chris Pyrgas. He will give a two part session on Do's and Dont's. Yes, we already had something like that before, but you can bet that with his developing expertise it won't be a repeat (see more details in the session outline).

We didn't leave out new stuff. WPF got a major boost with the arrival of .NET Framework 4.0. And thanks to Visual Studio 2010 and an excellent Vulcan integration you can use state of the art development support for WPF now. Phil Hepburn will give a comprehensive introduction on how to proceed. Delegates and interfaces aren't really new in the .NET world, but for most Vulcan developers they are. Fabrice will have a session on "Delegates: When, Where, and Why". And Chris will cover the right way of using interfaces in his session.

What is the rigth way to deploy Vulcan applications? Deployment the xcopy style, is it feasable? How to proceed with Click-Once deployment? You'll find all this discussed in Paul Piko's session on "Deployment (including Click-Once) and Security of Vulcan.NET applications".

This year, VODC will be the conference how you wanted it to be. Many sessions have been put on the agenda because you asked for them. Sounds like it's gonna be an enjoyable event..

More info on VODC 10 sessions can be found here