The 2007 Aussie DevCon has wrapped up, and there have been a number of newsgroup posts and blog entries that shed further light on SoftVelocity’s presentations and the reaction of attendees. Bob’s presentations, which covered the new IDE, Clarion 7, and Clarion.NET (in its WinForms, WebForms/ASP.NET and Compact Framework incarnations, by all accounts left his audience both impressed and optimistic. Folks got to see the new data dictionary and visual data designer, both of which are (apparently) essentially complete and expected in the next Alpha release. The AppGen is still undergoing significant work and is not quite ready for alpha testing yet. Word out of the conference (which aligns with what I’ve heard from other sources) is that the bottleneck is getting the AppGen to talk nice with the rest IDE, with the additional info via Geoff Bomford that the .NET threading model is problematic: …changes to the threading model by MS are still causing…
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