I never claimed to speak for anyone else Rob. Any opinions I have
offered relate directly to what I need and use. But again, except for a few
superficial items that they may consider enhancements that users of the Pro
version might like everything is aimed at the Enterprise developer. What
good is the dB explorer changes to me. I never used the old one! And Live
Designer Guidelines? That just means you'll be able to set margins and such
directly via the editor instead of going thru Options...definitely NOT worth
the price of an upgrade! The same with Intellimouse support for
components...ain't no big thing! Smart Blocks...well if it actually works
100% of the time so that it can always be trusted this might be of some
value, but I often change my blocks as I'm writing, and I certainly wouldn't
want to have to keep deleting or over-typing! I get enough of that now with
code completion! The editor Change Bar...I see no need for this at all.
Maybe in multi-dev shops it could be useful but not to me!
Selective Symbol Tables...again the same...I've never had to drill down like
that. And as for HTML and ASP Source preservation, I'm not even sure what
they mean by this one! So you see, there is nothing significant they are
offering to developers like myself, and what worries me more than anything
else is that it took over 6 months before my investment in D2005 could even
be used...now they're adding more junk on top like ECO and C++ which with
their record can only mean the same or worse yet again! Add to this that
they're .Net implementation is non-standard and then compare what you can
get with VS and Chrome which has many additional Pascal language
enhancements and platforms targeted, and the documentation, courseware, and
other materials...example: The VS 2003 Academic version alone came with 5
times the documentation and help that Delphi has ever offered!
I chose Delphi when I started for one reason, and it wasn't
Borland's reputation, because I didn't know anything about them. It was
because they offered Pascal in a RAD environment! The only other choice I
had was VB and I choked on the word, "DIM"! <g> But things are different
today and now we do have a choice. And when you have a choice you have to
look realistically at them no matter what your loyalty may be!
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On Behalf Of Rob Kennedy
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:40 AM
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Subject: Re: Delphi 2006 Announced...moved from Delphi List
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 DelphiR
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
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