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Getting ready for EKON Spring

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:08:00 +0000

For the first time, there will be two EKONs in Germany in one year. EKON Spring will be next week in Frankfurt. “The Road To Delphi” is the tagline of the conference and I am in the process of putting the finishing touches to my talks. I will be talking about Webservices and ECO in the VCL world. Two exciting topics. I am looking forward to it as I will be meeting a lot of Delphi friends (Olaf Monien, Thomas Pfister, Nick Hodges, Marco Cantu, Alois Schmidt, Sabine Rothe, Matthias Eißing, Roland Appel, Bernd Ua, Hadi Hariri, Daniel Wischnewski, Michael Li, Masoud Kamali and the names that I sadly forgot…) again. I will also be able to get a beer refill as I love the beer in that region

For more information on the conference go to www.entwickler-konferenz.de . Would be very nice meeting you there in person!

ECO IV: New templates for servers

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:23:00 +0000

The ECO team released a new beta version of ECO which will install into VS 2005, 2008 and RAD Studio 2007. Interestingly, there seem to be some nice new wizard features being developed right now. As you can see in the figure below, you can select the server-type you want to include into your project group/solution.

There are templates for a server that is run in a console window, a Windows Service, a WinForms Application and a server type called “Web Service”. It was announced in the field test newsgroup that the features have not been implemented yet completely, but it is really good to see that it will be much easier in the future to create custom ECO servers. (Think of an ECO server as an abstract data storage your application communicates with that bridges the connection to a database or any other data storage you want to use)