CONFERENCE SPEAKER: Marco Cantu

Marco Cantu is the author of the best-selling series Mastering Delphi, of Essential Pascal, and of a Delphi 8 ebook. He teaches Delphi and XML classes and is a frequent speaker at Delphi and other developers conferences worldwide. He can be reached on www.marcocantu.com.

1144  The Fun Side of Delphi and C++Builder  

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
The tradition of having some fun while learning some advanced Delphi/C++ and VCL tricks and sabotaging the IDE gets to Delphi 2006.
Prerequisites: None.
1144 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 1:15pm - 2:30pm
Room: Continental Ballroom 6 

2110  VCL for .NET  

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
An overview of the classic Delphi VCL component library in the Microsoft .NET Framework world including coverage of what's new in VCL.NET, porting your code, and figuring out how relevant the VCL will be in the future. The primary focus is on the visual library, more than its database or Internet support portions, with examples ranging from the use of the classic Windows common controls to the use of third party components.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Delphi.
2110 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3142  Delphi Design Patterns

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This presentation explores a number of classic design patterns from the GOF book from the Delphi language perspective, providing some implementation samples and offering an overview of patterns in object-oriented programming. The session covers a little of the theory, but mostly focuses on applying patterns to the daily use of Delphi such as plugging-in features to existing VCL components and applications.
Prerequisites: Good understanding of the Delphi language and of object-oriented programming.
3142 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 11:00am - 12:15pm
Room: Continental Ballroom 4 

9000  AJAX in Delphi  

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
Asynchronous JavaScript XML is a Web technology that has become very popular because of Google (gmail, maps). Writing AJAX applications in Delphi is easier than you might believe.
Prerequisites: None.
9000 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 12:30pm - 1:15pm
Room: Continental Ballroom 5 

9004  OR Mapping with InstantObjects  

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
InstantObjects is an open source and actively developed Object Relational Mapping framework for Delphi. Come and learn about it, see how to get involved, and check out what's cooking in the lab.
Prerequisites: None.
9004 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 7:00am - 7:45am
Room: Continental Ballroom 6