March 07, 2005

Finally: Delphi 2005

OK, I finally got Delphi 2005 installed last night. First impressions: I have a lot of catching up to do.

The last version of Delphi that I actively developped with was Delphi 5. That means I missed versions 6,7, 8 and Delphi.NET, not to mention Kylix.

I have a LOT of catching up to do.

Delphi 2005 has built-in refactoring, you can develop in native Win32 or .NET, write web pages (ASP.NET or IntraWeb), it has 2 built in reporting engines, comes with the ComponentOne controls, and you can write C# code with it.

I have a lot of catching up to do.

One of the minor things I'm going to have to get used to is the new IDE. It now looks like Visual Studio.NET (with a few minor tweaks). It now has NUnit and DUnit integration (I will look into that), HTML, and CSS formatting support.

Good grief, this could take a while. Oh well, I'm up for it.

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