Borland Roadshow UK 2006 (9th May)

London Underground was messed up pretty badly so I rolled in late to
the roadshow (10.10am), so I missed the introduction. I saw the IDE
talk and picked up on a couple of things I didn't know are in the IDE.
Refactoring was mentioned in passing but no real demo of it, so I'm
none the wiser.

Is there a demo or demos somewhere on the Borland website of all these
new features that are in BDS that I just wouldn't know existed unless
someone held my hand and talked me through them?

David I gave a talk about databases - sorry, don't do those so I didn't
pay too much attention. The next section was Modelling, and that was
very interesting. The talk about dropping in Design Patterns,
exporting/importing them was very interesting for me, as I'm currently
trying to get up to speed on these things.

The ECO stuff was interesting, just not relevant to the kinds of
projects I tend to work on. Usually small audio related apps.

I was a bit disappointed when I returned home to my BDS 2006
Professional to descover it doesn't have the "Together Design Patterns"
feature mentioned in the talk. It would have been nice in the talk to
point out you need Enterprise or Architect to get them. Is there any
way of adding the Together Design Patterns without going the whole hog
of Enterprise/Architect?

--
Pete Goodwin
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