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September 27, 2005

Dexter Features (by Jason Vokes)

At EKON9 Jason Volkes has given out many details of the next version of Delphi.

After David I keynote at the EKON9 conference in Frankfurt (Germany), Jason Vokes has laid out the details for Dexter. Tomorrow they might show it, but I'll be on a plane travelling back to Italy. Others have blogged on it and will do it again.
Anyway this is the the list of features I had time to jot down. Notice that there is a long list of features for the Delphi personalities (yest, there is C++ stuff as well):

Developer Productivity

  • VCL live guidelines (live snap-to guides for positioning and resizing VCL controls at desing time)
  • Live Templates, scriptable and extensible
  • Block Completion: automatically ends the blocks you begin
  • More refactorings

Quality and Performance

  • Fastcode memory manager
  • Faster startup time (IDE startup and project load)
  • More responsive IDE
  • Incorporated QC feedback

.NET Enterprise/Database Application Development

  • ECO basics in all editions, with object Relational mapping, transparent persistence, object transactions, managed object cache, class modeling
  • New ECO III state machines
  • Other new ECO features: domain patterns, oveloaded OCL expressions, improved UML designer...

Database Development

  • Win32: new database explorer for dbExpress , new unicode dbexpress platform, new and updated dbexpress drivers
  • .NET: new BPD connection pooling, BDP SQL tracing, datahub error reconciliation...

Together for Delphi

  • LiveSource class diagramming (two-way modeling: changes in code reflec in model and vicevercsa)
  • UML diagram suite (class, use case, sequence, collaboration, state chars, deployment, activity, and component diagrams)
  • Design patterns support: get started quickly with industry recognized GOF patterns or add your own
  • Audits and metrics: gain insight into your source code
  • Document generation: generate documentation from your source code and models

Application Lifecycle Management Integration

  • Integrated StarTeam User Experience
  • Integrated CaliberRM User Experience
  • StarTeam Server Standard Edition (in Enterprise and Architect)

Dexter C++ Personality

  • Upgrade to C++ Builder 6
  • IDE productivity improvements since D7 (database explorer, history managerm sybc edit...)
  • New VCL (updates already in Delphi 7 and 2005)
  • Rename Refactoring
  • CodeGuard 2006
  • Configurable Builds (highly configurable and flexible C++ build options)
  • IntraWeb RAD C++ Web App Development
  • CORBA support




 

2 Comments

Dexter Features (by Jason Vokes) 

Thanks Marco again,

Have you heard any news about Kylix?

If not, Could you ask about it please?
Comment by Mohammed Nasman on September 28, 09:59

Dexter Features (by Jason Vokes) 

Microsoft .Net Framework 2?
Comment by Alto on September 28, 10:56


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