“Watch the 2005 Borland Developer Conference Tuesday presentation and demonstration of the new Borland Developer Studio 2006. Michael Swindell presents an overview of BDS 2006, Allen Bauer demonstrates the new IDE enhancements, David I demonstrates the new C++ language support and the ALM integrations into StarTeam and CaliberRM, and Michael Swindell demonstrates ECO III.”
I love to see Delphi giving an option to windows developers, i’m always amazed on how Borland is able to be steps ahead on how to make developers life easy.
I can’t wait for Delphi 2006, from watching this video I saw that many issues with Delphi 2005 have been addressed.
If all the MS developers out their new how simple it is to create incredible database enabled applications with Delphi they would never use C# or VB.net again.(not to mention you have full access the the win32 API, so you can code down to the metal if you want,and it has inline Assembly if you need really optimized code)
There is also a HUGE 3rd party component community with many free or Open Source.
A few good examples are:
Synapse: http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/
Synedit: http://synedit.sourceforge.net/
Indy: http://www.indyproject.org/
Faststrings: http://www.droopyeyes.com/default.asp?mode=ShowProduct&ID=4
The win32 version of Skype is also built with Delphi as is the Oracle admin tool TOAD.
There are so many commercial apps created with Delphi and no one even knows…
You can do darn near everything you can do with C++ in Delphi (except device drivers),You can even code pure windows API applications that come it at a whopping 32k.
The 2006 version of Delphi also includes a high performance memory manager that will scale well on SMP and multi thread,this means you can easily do high performance TCP/IP apps with ease. C++? Who needs it 🙂
Simply FANTASTIC!
Thanks God Delphi exists.
Borland, please make Delphi 7 Personal a free download
Greatest programming environment with the best OS. Drool. Come on Boralnd. There is a HUGE untapped market here. With Mac going Intel, and with the work already done to make the VCL cross platform – there is no excuse now.
Come on. You know it would be cool….
VCL is hardly tied to win32. Borland was tired to create platform independent version of VCL, it was the CLX, but now this line is dropped (width the Kylix) :-(. CLX was a relative good idea, but it was very buggy and it is based on the commercial version of Qt witch is also conatins some bugs. If you want multiplatform you must use Java, or Mono or Lazarus/FreePascal.
Simply the best developing tool out there.
Not too impressive. Most of new features copied from VS2k5. The another revolutional news is the returning of the old stupid C++ Builder, but only for win32/VCL.
Looking at their roadmaps, it’s still .NET, .NET, .NET. They haven’t understood why people continue using Delphi 6 and do not migrate to the .NET versions.
It is not a too big problem. The most delphi applications are not games or other processor-intensive application, and the .NET is far better platform to a simple business application or any similar thing then the win32 API.
Bigger problem the price/quality of the software. Before the .NET the Borland’s stuff was cheaper or at least better then the concurrent microsoft products. But IMHO the VS2k3 was better then Delphi 8-2k5 and the vs2k5 also better then the new delphi2k6 will be.
Yes, compared to visual basic 6 or Visual C++ I totally agree, but the VCL is much better than .net for creating desktop apps. You do realize that the C# architect is the same guy who created Delphi all those years ago.
I can create(with any version of Delphi) a full featured database app in half the time it would take me to make the same app with C#.
MS got rid of DLL hell only to be replaced by .net runtime hell. There is now 3 versions of the runtime and some apps that are coded with 1.0 or 1.1 won’t run on 2.0 and 2.0 won’t run on 1.0 or 1.1.
Now with Delphi I can take a app created with Delphi 2 or 3 from 1996 and it works fine on any PC I would care to run it on.
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Borland Delphi 2006 is the best Delphi until now. Please spread the word! There are lots of hopeless Visual Studio developers out there waiting to be rescued