Re: Delphi magazines and books to give away

"Bruce McGee" wrote:

I can't resist pointing out that the Delphi books held up much better
than the .Net 1.0 books I used to own.

I still have my Delphi 1.0 disk in it's jewel case but someone borrowed and didn't return my 'Delphi Programming for Dummies' by Neil Rubenking. I also have my copy of 'C# Programming with the Public Beta' which has held up quite well even if it's slighly dog eared, Wrox used good quality papaer back in those days. :)

BTW: have you seen this? <g>
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx
Windows Forms Controls
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SP1 adds several new Windows Forms controls - including new vector shape, Printing, and DataRepeater controls:

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