Quorum client - .NET 2.0

With the extreme effort of our team, we have Quorum client fully converted to .NET 2.0 in just a few weeks time.

The story goes something like this:

• Three weeks ago we started the conversion of Delphi .NET (WinForms) application to C# within Delphi2005 IDE.

• One week later, the guys from the team moved to C# Express to validate final .NET 2.0 migration. Me - still in VS2005 Beta2, for additional verification.

• Chad pointed us to the Empower program on Microsoft Partner website as an excellent start-up (Empower program provides - once approved - five MSDN Pro subscriptions for relatively small fee). We joined the Empower program and became approved in just a few days

• MSDN package arrived in almost no time (5 days) and we were fully VS2005 Pro equipped.

• Quorum client projects in Delphi are removed from SVN. We are fully in .NET 2.0!

Christmas holidays are ahead and things are moving nicely. Many things remain to be completed and we don't have hard dates, yet. But we are working hard and heading towards the RC1, probably during the beginning of 2006.

CDNUG Launch Event: Afterthoughts

CDNUG Launch Event 2005 just happened yesterday in Hilton hotel, Nicosia. We had 72 attendees (peak) with 4 sessions of the Dev. track. It was excellent!

With the great help of Khaled Chebat we managed to organize and present Launch in CDNUG way. There were lot of developers interested in .NET and some of them took initiative to join the group. There will be some photos and comments posted on our website so keep checking for the updates. I'm using this opportunity to thank to Evangelos, Andreas and Cosmin for extreme effort and the time these guys put into the event and made it reality. Having that this was our first big event, we found out some things the hard way and learned a lot.

Special thanks goes to Khaled who presented slides for all sessions, plus whole single session between already tight flight schedule and almost no-sleep time.

Thanks to Microsoft and the rest of our sponsors who supported the Launch financially.

Finally, thanks to all members of CDNUG (and others as well) who attended the event.