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General Meeting
Location: Auditorium
Date: Monday, March 1
Topic: ActiveX Doc Objects - One of Window's Best Kept Secrets
Rod da Silva
RodDaSilva@compuserve.com

This session explores the little know but fascinating subject of ActiveX Doc Objects. Find out what they are and see how you have been using the roots of this technology already for many years without knowing it! Learn how they can be exploited to create rich U.I forms for BOTH your native Windows programs and your I*NET applications from common source code. Discover for yourself Microsoft's "Universal Browser" philosophy and how you can, in just a few lines of code, adopt this methodology directly into your applications with stunning results. Regardless of the language you work with, you won't want to miss this session jammed packed with working demos, informative information, and practical advice on how best to start working with this versatile technology.

Rod da Silva is a professional Windows developer specializing in all things ActiveX/OLE/COM/DCOM. He has lectured all over the world to 1000's of people at various computer conferences on a wide range of software development issues during the past 10 years. For the past 3 years he has been heavily involved in designing and implementing large, distributed, enterprise-wide business applications for the Windows NT platform, exploiting modern N-Tier architectures. Rod is available for general Windows consulting and can be contacted at RodDaSilva@compuserve.com.

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