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November 2009 - Posts

• 1001 DevExpress Tales

  We're quite excited about the completion of the first DevExpress Book "Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls", and the timing couldn't be better as we took delivery of the first 2 palette loads right as we were putting together boxes of DevExpress t-shirts and caps to send to PDC to give away from our booth. Look at all these boxes of books lurking deep inside our PDC booth. We are giving away all 1000 books from this first load to PDC attendees from our booth.  If you are at PDC swing by and get your own copy, and if you meet up with some of the authors they'll be glad to sign your copy if you want. Here is Paul Kimmel, one of the authors posing with the 1001st and by far the largest copy of the book.  Not all of the books are so large. If you can't make it to PDC, you can also find the book on Amazon. BTW: If you happen to have the VCL platform subscription, by a quirk of Delphi IDE history, you also have our ASPx controls. Posted Nov 17 2009, 03:51 PM by Richard Morris (DevExpress) with 5 comment(s) Filed under: PDC09

• Delphi at PDC

  As you may have heard by now, Devexpress is again a top level sponsor of Microsofts Professional Developers Conference (PDC) again this year.  Here's the button, so you know it's fair dinkum. This is a pretty big deal for us, because it's an opportunity to show off what we have been working on for the past year to one of the largest audiences of .NET developers.  But PDC is not just about Microsofts development tools like say a TechEd (which we have also sponsored).  Rather PDC is about Professional development for the Microsoft Platform ... in other words it's pretty much a Windows Developer Conference although naturally many attendees are exclusively .NET developers. So why might Delphi developers be interested in a Microsoft conference?  Well ... with the exception of the handfull who still use Kylix we're pretty much all Windows developers.  The future of the Windows Platform is very important to Delphi developers because it's the future of our applications too. I expect there will be many Delphi developers at PDC this year including those like me who use .NET for web development and corporate applications and Delphi for shrinkwrapped executables.  I look forward to meeting up with developers from many component vendors like CodeGear and RemObjects among others that build both .NET and VCL based products, as well as independant Delphi developers. I'm flying from Australia to be at PDC and this year I have an attendee pass to go to all the keynotes and sessions, although you will also find me around the DevExpress booth during most booth hours.  So If you use Delphi hunt me down and we'll talk.   Posted Nov 13 2009, 03:00 PM by Richard Morris (DevExpress) with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Delphi PDC09