For those on D7 or earlier, its worth pointing out that a professional version
of D7 also would not contain pretty much any of the things left out of the
Starter edition – so it is still a pretty good deal in my humble opinion.
ie those wanting a cheap upgrade from D5/D6/D7 can get this Starter with the
newer IDE and still get most everything they already have plus many new
features.
John
..........
>>I wouldn’t call it “crippled”, but it is deliberately limited in comparison
>>to Professional/Enterprise/Architect. I suppose you might call it crippled
>>in the same way that you might call a 1.8 Mondeo “crippled” in comparison to
>>a 2.5V6 model. Or you might just call it “suited to a different
>>purpose/market”. J
Here’s a quick summary of what’s missing (according to the feature matrix),
categorised according to my own personal perspective/opinion:
Good Exclusions:
- DBExpress
- Data Snap
- UML Modelling
- Code Formatting
- Code Templates
- Code Completion for HTML
- Source Control (SVN) Integration
- i18n/L10N tools
- DUnit Integration
- AQ Time / FinalBuilder /CodeSite trialware integrations
- Azure/EC2 integrations
- RAVE Reports
- SOAP / BizSnap
- IntraWeb
- WebSnap
- ER/Studio
Odd choices:
- AutoUpdating IDE (does this mean Starter Edition is not intended to
be updated?)
- Command line tools (TDump, resource compiler etc)
- Class Explorer (!?!)
- Resource Manager (not ever knowingly used it myself tho, so this may
be a good choice)
- Symbol Insight (!?!)
- Code Folding (!?!)
- TODO lists (!!?!)
Really, really BAD choices:
- Numerous debugger limitations, including:
o reduced multi-thread tools, no freeze/thaw thread for example
o reduced breakpoint controls (no data aware triggers)
o No Evaluator (!!?! I really REALLY hope this doesn’t mean the Ctrl-F7
evaluator – that would be DUMB DUMB DUMB)
o No expandable local variables (but you DO get expandable watches – go
figure)
- COM limitations, including such mind bending exclusions as :
o No Type Library Editor
o No COM Object Wizard
o No support for automation object event handling
o No ability to generate component wrappers for imported COM servers !!?!?!!
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