VDUNY Past Meetings
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1996 Meetings
Wednesday, December 18th, 1996
We rolled up our sleeves for the long-awaited Visual Basic Jam Session! After a pizza and a lively talk session, we got down to the big topic of the night. Larry Roth taught us about using 3-tier client/server architecture with Visual Basic, and showed us how to do it with OLE Automation. We created user-defined objects and our own remote OLE applications and an OLE server. Tim had the honor of hosting the server on his PC and those of us who wrestled those LETs, GETs, and Remote Automation Manager settings successfully then had fun filling Tim's screen with silly MsgBox's. Of course, he could let us dangle in pending-land by not clicking OK. It was a cool topic.
Wednesday, October 16, 1996
Speaker: Todd Abel
Microsoft's Todd Abel filled our brains with a scintillating lesson on everything about Active X from the underlying technology to some cool ways to use Active X in our applications. Afterwards, a lively question/answer session ensued.
Several meetings were not written up...
Wednesday, February 27, 1996
Speaker: Larry Roth
The VDUNY User's group held its second monthly meeting at RIT's Carlson Auditorium in the Building for Imaging Science. The meeting was co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. and Jolt Cola Corp. The meeting drew about 20 people and Larry Roth of Meliora Systems, Inc. was the speaker for the evening and addressed some information learned at VBITS San Francisco. Topics covered included RDO and N-tier architecture. Additionally, Keith Partington the local sales rep from Microsoft, was on hand to answer questions regarding the migration of Windows 3.1 and WFW3.11 to Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation. Many developers said they were still developing in 16-bit due to the cost of rolling out 32-bit platforms to their users in additon to development costs. Keith mentioned that most companies have been weighing the stability of Windows 95 based on bad press that it initially received and are now finding that not only is it a very stable platform, but the cost savings (ROI) by using the 32-bit platforms is proving to be substantial, even though the initial investment may seem costly. Some points were that technical support problems associated with DOS and Windows 3.x as well as networking and interconnecivity issues have dropped and therefore the support budget is much lower; application performance and stability are much greater; the overall cost of supporting and mainting 32-bit will be less expensive. Additionally, Todd Abel, the local Microsoft Consultant was also available to field questions on topics in VB, OLE, and database issues.
First meeting not written up...alas.
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