Posts Tagged ‘CodeGear’

Updated Delphi Road Map

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Nick just posted an updated Delphi Road Map.  Check it out.  This looks to be one of the most significant Delphi releases in a long time.  This road map is just covers native code, not .NET - that will be in a future road map I guess.  Anonymous Methods, Generics and Unicode stand to be huge langauge and framework improvements.

List of 3rd Party Components for Delphi 2007

Friday, December 7th, 2007

My thanks to Andreano Lanusse, the Product Line Manager for Latin America at CodeGear, who just posted a list of 3rd Party Components for Delphi 2007. This is a great resource. Andreano is open to suggestions and feedback on his list too and has provided his email address for everyone.

This has long been one of the strengths of Delphi - the strong collection of 3rd party components. 3rd party component development was of course fostered by the fact that Delphi came with full source for the VCL and RTL. A move the Microsoft if finally duplicating in releasing the source for the .NET framework. Although unlike Delphi, Microsoft will not allow you to modify and recompile the framework in your applications. With Delphi you can tweak the VCL and recompile it (not a trivial task, but allowable and possible) for your applications. Granted doing so makes moving to new versions of Delphi a little more tricky, and you cannot redistribute the modified source.

BTW, notice the link to my TurboPower page on line 27.