The install team detected a few problems after separating the Win32 and .Net IDE components, and that coupled with a change to the compiled  .tt template path info delayed today’s release – but we’ll be working over the weekend until it “ships”.  Sorry for the delay!

We’ll be on Clarion Live! on November 30 at 9-11am (Pacific Time) doing a .Net AppGen presentation, and again on December 16th to pickup wherever we leave off (plus to answer any questions),

Topics for 11/30

An Introduction to AppGen.Net – covering the .Net template registry, WinForm app and WebForm Wizard and code generation, the object datasource data access layer shared by winform/webform, working in AppGen using the current templates both Winform and Webform, writing, editing and debugging the .Net T4 templates and (time permitting) using Subversion to get updates. (presenters: Robert, Diego and Pierre)

And don’t worry if you can’t be there for the live webinar, the presentation is recorded and usually available within 24 hours.  A new Clarion.Net release (with the new .Net AppGen) will be available the same day after the webinar or the day after.

While the stand-alone ReportWriter is out and available now, we delayed the C8 release to review a report from a dev who had a pre-release and reported a potential problem with some aspects of swapping Reports from/to Landscape mode. We’re also holding onto the AppGen.Net release to finesse a wrinkle with ASP.Net web project files and creation of the IIS virtual dir. We’re working this weekend with the hope and expectation that both releases can go out in the beginning of the next week. Sorry from all of us!

Today is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year, and in the U.S., where I live, it is Veterans Day. It’s a day to honor all those who have served our country. Whether they saw combat, or served during times of peace, all who have worn the uniform of any of the five branches of the U.S. Military, are heroes and we salute them.

We have a busy week coming up next week. The end-user version of Report Writer will be officially available for purchase, we have a new release of C8 scheduled, and we’ll do the first release of the .Net AppGen. This weekend we’ll setup the SVN repository for the .Net templates and next week we’ll push out a new Clarion.Net install with the .Net AppGen. We plan to do a video tutorial for template writers and the following week, after folks have had a chance to get their feet wet, we’ll do a webinar to answer template writing questions, and questions on using the templates.

Clarion 8 gold shipped out on August 29th, and we want to thank all of our users who helped us get here. Version 8 has over 90 new features and improvements, about 100 changes/optimizations, and over 350 bug fixes. And as of today you should have received notifications with download links for the version 8 add-on drivers.

During the early-release phase we worked closely with a few Clarion developers who were in the process of deploying applications based on version 8 into the field. Robert Paresi of InnQuest had one of the largest deployments, and as of about a week ago had successfully deployed his roomMaster application, based on the Clarion RTL version 8, to about 1900 sites (most sites have multiple workstations). His successful deployment (after a few tweaks to the RTL), helped us close down version 8 with a lot of confidence, thanks Robert!

Looking forward to seeing some of you at the CIDC conference in just a short few weeks! We’ll be posting here each day of the conference making sure you get the latest information even if you can’t attend.

We still get asked about subscription renewals; if you purchased your CSP twelve months or more ago, then you are up for renewal. So if you haven’t already done so, you should jump over to the web site and renew your subscription today.

We pushed out a new C8 update today with a nice set of fixes and improvements, check it out and see what you think.

Its official, the developer conference location has been changed to Orlando, and the dates have
been finalized:  September 26th – October 1st 2011

John Hickey and Arnold Young, hosts of ClarionLive organized a great conference last year in Denver.
This year SoftVelocity is working with them to make the Orlando conference an even better event.
I’ll be there along with Diego Borojovich and Pierre Tremblay. We’ll be doing the morning session
at the start of each day talking about Clarion 8 and Clarion.Net, integrating Clarion.Net code into your
Win32 app, and creating web and mobile applications.  The rest of the day will be filled with sessions
presented by well-known Clarion developers; Mike Hanson, Rick Martin, Bruce Johnson, Andy Wilton, and Dave Harms.

You can read more about the event and register to attend at CIDC 2011

This is sure to be a great event where you’ll have the opportunity to learn a lot!

A new update is on its way to you just over a week after our last update. This one kills some GDI leaks that could affect programs on XP and Win Server 2003, and brings back the “Column 1” check-box for the Embed Tree dialog.

We’re steadily progressing to a gold release!