Archive for the 'RADStudio' Category

RAD Studio 2007 Updates, SOX, Revenue Recognition

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

In the past few weeks, I’ve had several customers and field testers ask why we don’t talk in detail about any of the updates we are working on as we used. I can understand the confusion, it’s fairly frustrating on the development side too since the more folks we have jump in and join the field […]

Process for installing RadStudio 2007/Update 3 using Online Install

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

I wrote these instructions in response to a question from SA customers on how to safely install RadStudio 2007.  The instructions are mostly aimed at existing D2007 users.  The main difference between an Update is when you want to install the full studio, run the setup program and select the upgrade option (top option) in the UI dialog that appears.  […]

RADStudio Update 3 Common Issues

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

The most common issues I see folks running into are listed below. Feel free to send me email if you find something other then what is listed here. I’d appreciate a QC report logged so it’s easy to promote and have the team investigate
1) If you have trouble downloading files, read here:
Downloading new .7zip files […]

Delphi 2007/C++Builder 2007 Update 3

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Now that RAD Studio 2007 has RTM’d, we’re doing the final preparations for Update 3 - the update all our Delphi 2007 and C++Builder 2007 customers will ‘inherit’ as part of the RAD Studio 2007 release.
Update 3 is similar to Update 1 in how it will uninstall and re-install the product. We also broke out […]

Delphi 2007/C++Builder 2007 Update 2

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

A critical update for C++Builder 2007 users has been made available, details can be found here:
http://dn.codegear.com/article/36777
Now here we found the results of our best intentioned change to allow users to not need to install the ‘file cache’ to their systems during the main product install. There was a section of text, which several folks missed, […]

Highlander Field Test - Application Development Contest

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

We’re going to run a contest during our Highlander field test. It should be fun and a good way to encourage the field testers to work closely with the development team. Call it an ‘Iron Chef - Coding’ event, if you will. And the ingredient to be served up is ….
The new ASP.NET Provider.
To enter, […]

Highlander Field Test - Apply Here

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

We’re starting the field test for the next product release on our roadmap, code named Highlander. Some of the features we want feedback on are ASP.NET features, supporting .NET 2.0/3.0, consumption and creation of parameterized types (“generics“) in Delphi for .NET, Vista support, ECO IV and some very cool database features. Review the roadmap document […]