Aussie DevCon AppGen news #2

Some hot news off the Aussie DevCon press:

• Clarion# already has support for LINQ and .NET 3.5 - this was added two weeks ago but hasn't been documented yet.
• .NET templates are in development but have a ways to go.
• Of the .NET template sets the WinForms templates will be first, most likely followed by CF templates, then ASP.NET
• The .NET templates will not be a port of the ABC templates, but will follow the familiar browse/form paradigm.
• Clarion# will have the ability to declare variables inline in the code.

There's still a lot of stuff that's a bit unclear, such as the data access layer, although apparently there will eventually be many ways you can handle data access (actually there already are, but presumably this statement refers to the upcoming templates - more on that later I hope).

My thanks to Bruce Johnson and Kim Davies for the tips, and to Stu for keeping Rastus on a leash.

UPDATE: Stu Andrews has some DevCon pics up at ClarionFolk.com.

Posted: May 31 2008