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The DotNED meeting

I'm not going to write a very long story about the DotNED meeting last Thursday, other than that it was great!. . Due to time restrictions I only had half an hour for the presentation and the demonstration of LLBLGen Pro, which was too short for me to explain a lot about O/R mapping, its details and how it works in practise, though I hope everyone enjoyed what I had prepared! I've translated my slides to English as well, for the few who want to have them in English.

Some people said the presentation was good but I wasn't as enthousiastic as they expected. I was and am very enthousiastic about O/R mapping and data-access as a subject, I'm just not that experienced in giving presentations (this presentation was my first in years, and my laptop appeared to be very outdated). But that might change in the future, who knows. . Either way, thanks for the feedback.

The other presentation given was by Jeroen van Helvoort who made RADvolution Designer, a layout designer toolkit. Now, besides the obvious RAD advantages of the toolkit, one thing that was really great was its naming scheme engine. You could define a naming scheme (like use m_Name_controlType) with a rich set of options and every control you added to the forms automatically adapted that naming scheme. Very clever idea, which should be a core element of Visual Studio.NET as well, for example in the class designer.

Peter van Ooijen made some great pictures of the meeting, he'll write an own review of the meeting as well, so check back on his blog as well later today. One picture he made is shown below, with me in front of the code which fetches all countries from Northwind's Customer table, filters on the selected customer, shows the customers of the selected country in a grid, the orders of the selected customer in another grid and save changes to any object in the graph customer - order - order details! Using LLBLGen Pro of course


picture by Peter van Ooijen

Presentation slides (powerpoint): Nederlands, English

Published Monday, May 30, 2005 11:30 AM by FransBouma

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# Dotned generated code@ Monday, May 30, 2005 2:37 AM

Last thursday evening, may 26th, we had a great meeting of the Dutch dotned user group. Sander already...

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# re: The DotNED meeting@ Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:45 AM

Feeling said because I missed it. The slides look very interesting but I mis you explanation :)

Questa

# re: The DotNED meeting@ Sunday, June 05, 2005 1:14 AM

So you caught wind of my "Frans 'The Jackal' Bouma" post. I was going to dub you the .NET Jackal b/c there's a movie where this dude the Jackal, an international assasin, is like the man and he's never been seen by anyone. (in the movie, the Jackal was the bad guy but he was a totally cool bad guy - so I only liken you to him in the cool way ;-) ) So even the CIA doesn't have his picture. Well, no one has ever seen you until Roland tipped me off about the Frans siting last week. So I heard you were tall even by Dutch Standards - and if you were a movie star, you could play James Bond, Dracula or the Russian Agent in the Bourne Supremacy.

BTW, your presentation rocks - I wish I was there. We really need you to do a tour in the States ;-)

Bill

# re: The DotNED meeting@ Monday, June 06, 2005 5:30 AM

Hehe Bill :D

If someone coughs up the cash, a us tour would be great :).

Frans Bouma