Our most recent Super Users are just about to leave the building, in time for the weekend! Thanks to all of you for your time and input during the course of your 2-day induction – we hope you’ve learnt lots!

Main picture L-r: Aggie & Yasmin (infospeed), Sarah (Twin), Edward (Skola), Nicky (ELAC), Brian (Kaplan), Sara (ELAC) and Gary (Infospeed).

Have a safe journey home!

Gary and Yasmin will be attending the FELTOM 2016 ELT Malta Workshop 2016 between 9-10 March.

We are located at table B9 so please do come and say hello!

Just a note to all those who are awaiting the release of items in our 7.9 release due out on March 1st 2016.

Due to the aggressive roll-out of Windows 10 by Microsoft we have had to prioritise certain changes and product enhancements to Class.NET to ensure that Version 7.9 is Windows 10-supported.

Our intention is to create an interim release shortly after this to add all of the requested functions.  Dates for this are yet to be confirmed.

If you have any …

Gary and Yasmin will once again be attending this year’s ICEF Workshop which will be held in Berlin, Germany between 1-3 November.

We are located at Stand #40 so please do come and say hello!

Our most recent Super Users finished their 2-day induction at our Poole office on Friday! Thanks to all of you for your time and input during the course of your 2-day induction – we hope you’ve learnt lots!

The next Super User session is on 19th-20th November and then we are done for 2015!

The dates for 2016 are listed below and if you wish to join one, please contact us at [email protected] in order to book a place:

14th – 15th January …

The next major release of Class.NET will be available for download from our website on 1st September 2015.

On Wednesday 2nd September at 10.30AM, 3PM and 8PM UK time, there will be a refresher session entitled “Next Release of Class.NET – Version 7.7”.

This session will explain and demonstrate the new features and enhancements that have been added since the previous major release (1st June 2015).

Please contact [email protected] if you’d like to join this session.

The upcoming 7.7 release of Class.NET will only be available as a .NET Framework 4.5 build.
This means that it will not be suitable for any user still using old MS operating systems (such as Windows XP / Windows 2000).

Any customer still running old MS operating systems as identified above will not be able to upgrade Class.NET past version 7.6 – if in doubt, please contact [email protected] for advice.

Customers must have .NET framework 4.5 installed on their network/desktop prior to upgrading …

We have finalised the dates for our 2016 Super User sessions which will continue to be held at our offices in Poole, Dorset. The dates are as follows:

Thu 14th – Fri 15th January 2016
Thu 3rd – Fri 4th March 2016
Thu 13th – Fri 14th October 2016
Thu 17th – Fri 18th November 2016

We recommend 1 person per school per session so as to encourage brainstorming and lively discussion!

Please contact [email protected] today to register your interest.

Microsoft SQL 2012 Increment Jumping ‘Feature’
There are some columns within the Class.NET database that rely on auto-numbers being generated by the database server where new records are created eg. Student ID.
As expected the increment for these ID’s are usually one value at a time. Should your Microsoft SQL 2012 server be shut down/rebooted unexpectedly, the sequence is likely to increase once the service has been restarted. Typically this will show ID numbers climbing by 1000 when this occurs. (For example …

Infospeed are currently seeking a C# developer to join the team producing Class Web.  Get in touch if you are interested or know someone who might have the following skills:

C# to a good standard – Generics, LINQ to objects
Basic software pattern knowledge – Factory, Strategy, Adapter, Decorator, Unit Of Work Repository
SOA SOAP
SQL Server SQL

For the full job specification, please click here