Comments on: Today’s RAD Studio 2007 announcement…

By: David Heffernan

David Heffernan — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:47:58 +0000

My point was the use of the word complaint rather than compliant!

By: Dee Elling

Dee Elling — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:20:58 +0000

I plan to continue releasing CHM versions of the RAD Studio help for use with the expert. Thanks for your support!

By: Maxim Shiryaev

Maxim Shiryaev — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:35:00 +0000

It’s a pity that ECO disappeared from Pro and Ent versions. It was a very important part of a product that allowed an absolutely another level of software design even with XML persistence and not only for enterprise applications.

While I have a SA Arch at work I’ve planned to upgrade my freelance Pro version to Ent but now the price tag of Arch edition is almost at a level of "sell car to buy Delphi" Though SA price is quite OK.

By: Hans-Peter Suter

Hans-Peter Suter — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:21:06 +0000

While I appreciate the work of the documentation team, the original help in D2007 is still crap (slow, obscure hits instead of main topics, missing content).
Fortunately there is an expert (http://cc.codegear.com/Item/23948) by which the help can be configured. E.g. use old help files from D6, D7 or a .chm D2007 help file (http://cc.codegear.com/Item/24793).

I am confident that the new help has a better foundation and will ultimately be better, but in the mean time the current help is unusable and you should, imho, annonce this expert-workaround much more prominently (I stumbled across this by chance and it made a huge huge difference for working with D2007!)

By: shankar

shankar — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:50:54 +0000

When (date?) will it be available for SA customers. Had difficult time getting Delphi 2007 under SA architect

By: Tomohiro Takahashi

Tomohiro Takahashi — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:48:54 +0000

Hi,

link for Balskfish FAQ

http://www.codegear.com/article/36903/images/36903/blackfish_faq_US_070901.pdf

should be

http://www.codegear.com/article/36903/images/36903/blackfish_faq_US_070901-v2.pdf

By: David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:31:20 +0000

> "Which industry standards that Blackfish SQL is complaint with?"

Typo should be fixed now/soon.

By: David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:02:04 +0000

A follow up to Tony's post:

> it looks like the entire focus in 2007 has been on .NET

Delphi 2007 and RAD Studio 2007 have a lot for native code development - well beyond Developer Studio 2006. DBX has support for MySQL 4 and 5, and latest editions of other databases. Connection pooling in DBX gives you higher speed connectivity and throughput.

> Will this be able to target .NET 1.1, or is it 2.0 only?

RAD Studio 2007 targets .NET 2.0

By: David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:58:25 +0000

> Maybe I’m missing it, but other than Vista bits and some IDE/Documentation fixups, it doesn’t look like a "must-have" release for those of us already on BDS2006.

If you are on BDS 2006, you are waaay behind many improvements, bug fixes, IDE enhancements, etc. You should take a look at what’s new in Delphi 2007 and What’s New in RAD Studio 2007. You don’t have additional refactorings, more live templates, .NET 2.0 support, latest components, etc.

I’m curious what your "must have" release would look like - send me an email to davidi@codegear.com.

By: David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:55:29 +0000

> "Which industry standards that Blackfish SQL is complaint with?"

ANSI SQL 92 for the data/types. Also supports UniCode data in character fields. Stored Procedures and Triggers can be written in Delphi .NET and any other .NET language.