October 11, 2005
Delphi 2006 Announced
The most relevant info (beside the cute naming scheme: many names for a single product) is on Borland's Delphi site, including a datasheet and a FAQ. There are many newsgroup comments, like this thread. There are blog posts, like the one from Nick. There are articles like these: official newswire, standard review, article full of nonsense but funny (see Nick's post for a comment on this article). There is certainly much more info I've skipped looking for. With less formal announcements of DeXter already flowing around the web, the timing and the details of Delphi 2006 do not represent a huge surprise. However, a few elements are worth commenting.
From Borland site, I like the introductory description: "Delphi developers know the value of small, agile teams. For years, they have outperformed larger development organizations through skill, expertise, and the right choice of tools. Delphi 2006 provides the ultimate productivity force multiplier..." Looking to technnical stuff, notice the relevant new VCL features (who said Borland is following?), the core ECO support in all editions, and many others. The most relevant one seems to be "Full two-way live source class diagrams" for Together.
Another very intesting change is the availability of selective installation and execution. From the FAQ: "Customers who don’t need all the languages can choose to install only those they need for a more lightweight installation. In addition, even if customers install all of the supported languages, at runtime they can choose to either load all of the languages or only load a single language (through dedicated desktop icons or command line options)". Also, it looks like PDF manuals are back: "Borland® Developer Studio includes complete online documentation in online help and printable PDFs."
Finally, notice that the product is expected in december: "Delphi 2006, C++Builder 2006 and C#Builder 2006, all part of Borland Developer Studio, will be available for pre-order between Oct. 17 and Dec. 1, with customer shipments scheduled for early December" (from the official announcement).
4 Comments
DeXter rules! :-)
I am happy to see that Borland have decided to let "professional" developers afford the ECO technology: it's the best way to leverage on a really powerful and exclusive framework that can raise the gap between BDS and VS.NET. VCL and IDE improvements are exciting, too! :-) In the next few days, I am going to attend a Visual Studio 2005 presentation, so I'll try to read more and more about DeXter in order to be able to "blog" about its comparison with Microsoft product. I will try to be an impartial judge, but it's not so easy when speaking about the (so beloved) Delphi, so...no warranties! :-D Bye, Marco.Comment by Marco Breveglieri [http://www.marco.breveglieri.name] on October 12, 14:23
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I think problem with last versions of delphi is poor books offer. I see only 2-3 titles for D2005. Regards to Marco about his book. I mean it is ok for old users like me (i use delphi since 1995), but how to get new supporters (students) if there are no books to learn from. However reading some posts i was afraid delphi may 'retire'. But after i saw these roadmaps i see new versions are are already planned, so i hope situation in this manner will improve.Comment by KireZ [http://www.kirez.com] on October 12, 14:38
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I am happy, but there is a problem. The same problem. The product, the books, the news ..... all its in english. When a product is new, all is new (its .net). It is difficult to understand in your language but in another is terrible. i would like to know that someone think in the people that speak spanish and translate his books (Marco cantu, steve teixeira ...) to spanish and so. Thanks.Comment by vicente on October 13, 18:08
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Delphi 2006 Announced
Comment by BTX on October 12, 01:30