Improved Forms Designer integration
Visual APL RC 6.8 contains numerous low-level enhancements which improve the stability and speed of Visual APL's integration with the Visual Studio Windows Forms Designer. To show these speed and usage improvements, this WebCast will show how to create and integrate a Start Page into your Visual APL Windows Application, which presents news and important information to the user every time they open your application.
Resource Files
.Net managed Resource files allow you to store arbitrary data that is accessible by your application at runtime in a structured and maintainable format. This WebCast will show how to you can create Resource files in Visual Studio using a visual Resource file designer, compile Resource files into the .Net managed Resource file format using ResGen, and then how to retrieve information from those resource files in your application at runtime.
Configuration Files
To complete the demo application, this WebCast will show how to use the System.Configuration namespace to store and persist settings used by your application. The ConfigurationManager provides a robust and thorough configuration persistence system, allowing you to save application settings that are Machine wide, User specific, and even Roaming-User specific.
This webcast will be available from the following urls:
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Details
This webcast will have an accompanying IM session. There will be a moderator using IM to take your questions, provide answers and forward questions to the presenters to be answered during the webcast. This should provide a similar experience to raising your hand to ask a question during a presentation, but with the advantage that you can chat without getting in trouble. The moderator IM account to be used with the presentation will be MS/Yahoo.
IM account
webcast@aplnext.com
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Once you have your Windows Live ID open the Windows Live Messenger and click on the “Sign In“ button. After signing in go to Contacts > Add a Contact and type “webcast@aplnext.com“ in the “Instant Messaging Address:“ field. At this point you should be able to participate in the Realtime WebCast Q&A.
If you are behind a firewall you can try the web based version at http://webmessenger.msn.com/
If you cannot use IM just send your questions by email to webcast@aplnext.com.