Robert Meek wrote: > I haven't seen or heard a single word about upgrades to the "Delphi" > side of Delphi 2006,
I know you've read about the Delphi roadmap, so you must have read that Delphi 2006 (still known only as DeXter at the time) would have ECO and Together in all editions. Just because *you* won't use them doesn't mean they won't be there or that you didn't read about them. Here are the items from the Delphi 2006 datasheet that are listed as "new," included in the professional edition, and apply to the Win32 personality: Live Designer Guidelines with “smart” snap to drag lines, margins, padding, and text-based alignment VCL Flow Panel and Grid panel for HTML style and Table style form layouts with Autopositioning Intellimouse “pan and scroll” support for VCL controls Live Templates System - tab through fields and insert points of any template “Smart” Block completion - anticipates and gracefully adds block closures as you type editor “Change Bar” - indicates modified lines and saved session modified lines Database Explorer with dbExpress and drag-n-drop support Expandable evaluator, tooltips, watches, and local variables view Selective symbol table loading HTML/ASP.NET source preservation ASHX HTTP Handler Wizard I have no idea what all those things are. I have a pretty good idea what most of them are, though. There are also a few items listed as "enhanced." There's also a question in the FAQ, "What’s new for Delphi® developers?" > and I have to agree, the refactoring they threw in for > the last version has actually cost me more time than it has saved, as I too > tend to break my methods into small readable chunks! The "rename" refactoring is great. I also like using the "declare variable" and "declare field" refactorings. -- Rob __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
