xCase2VPM V2 Live Training in Tampa
Frank and I have committed to delivering some version of xCase2VPM V2, aka xCase2PSP for VPM, for a demo at the ProMatrix Solutions workshop in Tampa on October 21, and then we’ll do a workshop of our own, actually working with xCase2VPM V2, the next day. Workshop attendees will receive the beta version of xCase2VPM V2. This will be the first release of xCase2VPM V2, and Workshop attendees will be the first to receive it, along with access to the portal site devoted to the beta.The Saturday workshop will be the Full Monte of the xCase2VPM Jumpstart: shake it Frank!
- Installation of xCase2PSP and PSP4VPM (you can’t use xCase2VPM V2 without both components)
- Setting up xCase (not too much to do: we no longer add attributes to xCase)
- Quick Demo to prove it works! (Developed directly in SQL Server)
- Setting up xCase2PSP Advanced: your own attributes and code generation
- Working with Entities: all the features you liked in V1
- Generated vs. xCase Views: why you will rarely need xCase views
- Working with Fields: all the features you liked in V1
- Working with Validation Rules
- Working with Business Rules
- Bonus Session: Moving your model to MM.Net using PSP4MM.Net
When I went back to the xCase model for V2, I was interested to see that it had been started in 2003: and that I still like the ideas in it. <g> Ideas like the ability for users to add their own MetaData attributes to any object, and direct how those new attributes are used.
The interface will be in .Net, which was not in the original plan. In that time, .Net has gotten better, MM.Net has matured, and Infragistics controls have progressed. So, Frank and I decided to bite the bullet and develop the interface using MM.Net and Infragistics. On the backend will be a COM object written in VPME9 using the PSP Libraries. Which we will rewrite in VPME91 once we get V2 working. Why a VPM COM object? Because nothing does data like Fox. And if Anders Hejlsberg (creator of the CLR and C#, and currently adding data access improvements to C#) doesn’t have a VFP guru looking over his shoulder and shaking his/her head in dismay at his lack of data experience, well, it’s all our loss.
This is the only live training Frank and I have scheduled at this point, since we find the Online Videos and Support format to be so effective. But live training for something like this is exciting for everyone. And this stuff will blow people away. I’m excited, and I’ve been thinking/working on this over a period of 2 years.
You can sign up for the course on the ProMatrix training site.
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