Friday, December 23, 2005

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.