Today, at 8:30 Eastern Time, we announced the availability of RAD Studio 2007 and Blackfish SQL. The focus, passion, and effort of the entire team (development, QA, and documentation), our evangelists, technology partners, and community field testers to make this possible is wonderful. You can read all the details using the following links.
Read the RAD Studio 2007 press release
Product Information Links
- RAD Studio 2007 product page
- RAD Studio 2007 - What’s New
- RAD Studio 2007 - FAQ
- RAD Studio 2007 Datasheet (includes feature matrix)
- Reasons to Buy: RAD Studio 2007 Professional
- Reasons to Buy: RAD Studio 2007 Enterprise
- Reasons to Buy: RAD Studio 2007 Architect
- Blackfish SQL product page
- Blackfish FAQ
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Any improvement to the HELP?
>Any improvement to the HELP?
The help files are being continually improved and updated - both in the product and online. You can find different formulations of the help in Code Central - HTML/PDF in addition to the help format that is included in the product. Search CC for uploads by Nick Hodges.
http://cc.codegear.com/results.aspx?cat=9
From the Blackfish FAQ:
"Which industry standards that Blackfish SQL is complaint with?"
Nice!
My Q, not in the FAQ for some reason, is why another database?
First: Will this be able to target .NET 1.1, or is it 2.0 only?
Second: Is there anything in this for Win32 developers using the Pro SKU? Our apps are either talking to legacy databases through a custom .dll or ADO to MS SQL Server (or MySQL on rare occasion) on XP. 2006’s IDE has been good to us, and it looks like the entire focus in 2007 has been on .NET.
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 something doesn’t jump out at me, I’m going to recommend waiting for Tiburon, especially with the price increase for the Pro Upg.
> "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.
> 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.
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
> "Which industry standards that Blackfish SQL is complaint with?"
Typo should be fixed now/soon.
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
When (date?) will it be available for SA customers. Had difficult time getting Delphi 2007 under SA architect
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!)
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.
Though SA price is quite OK.
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"
I plan to continue releasing CHM versions of the RAD Studio help for use with the expert. Thanks for your support!
My point was the use of the word complaint rather than compliant!
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