Kick-Start database models

Yesterday, a friend of mine sent me an interesting link. Barry Williams has provided the community a wide ranging set of "kick start database models", which allow you to get a little head start when creating new database designs for projects. For many different topics you'll find the basic diagrams. Over all you'll find currently about 400 diagrams, a list still being updated over time.

Link: Database Answers: 'Kick-Start' Data Models

Thanks to the whole BDS Team

Today a personal note from me to the whole BDS team over at Borland / DTG!

The last months haven't been very kind on me and took more time from my personal life then I would have liked to commit to anything. I didn't even find the time and nerves to tell the team itself since I took some responsibilities on and couldn't work them as needed.

However, today I got a package delivered with FedEx and I'll let the pictures speak. Now, this box has seen quiet a lot Delphi people, the letter states the whole team.

THANKS!!!

Borland DTG comes near your home town

The Borland DTG Germany is again on the road and coming to three towns this time. To Cologne (Köln) on November 21^st, to Lucern (Switzerland) on November 23^rd, and to Dresden on November 29^th. Be sure to come and visit us when possible.

You'll get a DTG update, information on Peleton and InterBase 2007. Daniel Magin and I will talk to you about migrating your old Delphi 7 (and older) VCL applications to BDS 2006 and VCL.NET. We will also talk about the upcoming Vista release (I hope I'll get the final build from MS next week) and how to prepare your VCL apps for that.

So, register and come visit us: http://www.devtracks.de/

Running the BDS 2006 IDE against MS.NET 2.0

Hello,

now before you all get hyped, first the disclaimer: RUN AT OWN RISK, YOU CAN DESTROY YOUR BDS SETUP WHEN NOT FOLLOWING THIS INFO TO THE LETTER!

A week ago a friend of mine told me, that he has his IDE running against the MS.NET 2.0 framework, rather than the MS.NET 1.1 framework. And thanks to a much better J# implementation Togehter runs much smoother, less memory consumption, faster reaction times, etc... Sounds great? Well, it is great!

Now, where is the drawback? Simple, it will only work for Delphi Win32 and C++ Builder. Do not attempt to use those steps against the full BDS or any of the .NET personalities. With high possibility you will destroy your whole BDS installation and with some luck your Windows setup as well. Not scared, then read on!

Copy your $(BDS)\Bin\bds.exe and name the copy bds2.exe. Do the same with the bds.exe.config and name it bds2.exe.config. Open the bds2.config file and look for the node-entry configuration\startup. Change the value of the version attribute to version="v2.0.50727". Now, you have to have the MS.NET Framework installed, start the BDS2.EXE with the paramater -pDelphi for the Delphi Win32 personality and enjoy.

So far I have not hit any problems using that little feature, just more fun!

P.S.: I'll now start blogging more again, sorry for the long off-time.
-- Daniel