40 Million Reasons for Delphi 2007
What’s the best feature you can add to your applications today to appeal to customer upgrades? It’s Windows Vista support. Delphi 2007 is the first and only (until C++Builder 2007 ships in June) Vista ready development environment for building and seamlessly upgrading rich Windows GUI applications for Windows Vista. Delphi 2007’s Vista ready VCL makes it as easy as a recompile, in most cases, to upgrade older VCL framework based applications to instantly support Windows Vista and the Aero UI and desktop effects.
Microsoft has announced that it has shipped 40m Windows Vista licenses in 100 days and that number is going to keep climbing given that nearly every new PC is shipping with Vista today. Delphi 2007, and soon C++Builder 2007, you can provide high impact upgrades for your end user applications and customers with minimal effort. And because Delphi is the only shipping Windows dev platform with Vista support today you have a competetive advantage over your competition who might not be using Delphi.
And what do customers think of Delphi 2007?
"I love the new Delphi 2007. It’s sooooo fast and reliable. It’s amazing how fast it now loads the IDE, even with tons of third party components. This is an impressive upgrade. After I use it for a few days I just can’t go back to Delphi 7. I have to say, you guys rock. Thanks for a brilliant tool." Rui Menino, CTO, EISA
"Delphi 2007 for Win32 is a must-have IDE for any Windows developer!" Markus Spoettl toolsfactory software inc.
"CodeGear’s stellar commitment to the developer community forms a sharp contrast with other technologies that are literally "invented for obsolescence". Delphi 2007 is the only Win32 IDE with support for building native Win32 Vista applications with advanced features like Vista Glass, and in the good Delphi tradition, without any changes to existing source code. Even .NET applications require a major UI overhaul just to be glass compliant." Sinan Karaca - InstallAware
"Delphi2007 is the best native WIN32 development tool on the market. Now it is faster, more powerful and reliable as never before. If you still use Delphi 7 definitely it is a time to upgrade." Tomasz Kosinski www.TatukGIS.com
"Delphi 2007 is exceeding all my expectations! As a Micro ISV, the tremendous increase in speed and stability means I can run Delphi 2007 all day, be a lot more productive. This is the best release since Delphi 7! Thank you CodeGear for listening!" Eric Fortier Tech Logic, Inc. http://www.tlnewsreader.com
"Yes! Developers matters for CodeGear! They did a tremendous job to make Delphi 2007 for win32 the best and fastest IDE ever realized since D7! The Delphi Spirit is back" Stéphane Wierzbicki - Responsable Informatique
"A development powerhouse for RAD Win32 and a pinnacle of performance and quality!" Jarrod Davis
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Posted by Michael Swindell on May 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized |10 Responses to “40 Million Reasons for Delphi 2007”
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May 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
D2007- Speed, Stability, the doc-o-matic Help System, WSDL import , IW9 and elegant features on the IDE for new entrants like us mattered after the ghastly introductory experience of Delphi 2005. It is fun to work with even for novices like us. After examining the cost of VS 2005 TEAM edition it is a comfort feeling with D2007. What matters to customers is quality and ability to speculate & address their problems in time, the last things are the IDE, Technology and other FUD food vista, 64 bit …
May 16th, 2007 at 11:03 am
We have to be ready, as windows developers, for whenever Vista really is ready.
After spending two weeks working in Vista as my all-day-every-day operating system, I have to say it SUCKS.
1. You can disable those security-prompt dialog boxes, but not the delays associated with these layers in Windows. My Vista desktop freezes for 10-30 seconds, five to fifty times per hour during normal software development tasks.
2. Empty the trash can. Copy some files. Get used to waiting forever for it to do something simple, because whatever it says it’s doing, it merely says it’s "estimating how long" it will take to do something that took a few seconds in Windows XP.
3. The search feature still sucks. Indexing sucks. It doesn’t work very well at all for me. I can’t find anything, even though it says it indexed my C and D drives. Unlike OS X (my Mac), Search on Windows still sucks. Google Desktop running on XP is good enough for now.
I won’t go back on Vista as a development platform, and will only use it inside a VM for testing, or on boxen that are only used as test boxen. My main PC isn’t booting into Vista until service pack 1 addresses (hopefully) the most egregious flaws in Vista.
Warren
May 16th, 2007 at 11:49 am
@warren: "My Vista desktop freezes for 10-30 seconds, five to fifty times per hour during normal software development tasks."
Check the event log: iastorv errors? For me, flashing the firmware in my sony DVD drive fixed this. But, the drive worked fine in XP
May 17th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Any estimated date (other than "soon") for some fixes to Delphi 2007? It’s over 2 months now and even Vista support, which you’re touting right now, isn’t *that* well done. Problems are still present with the MainFormOnTaskbar setting, not that I care much about this one in particular as I don’t plan on doing Vista or using Vista anytime soon, but there are a few other nuisances like a still malfunctioning help that would be *very* welcome changes… Since you guys are starting some "forward looking statements" by saying that a new Ruby IDE will be available in 2nd half 2007, maybe we can know an estimated date for the first SP1 or hotfix?
As I’ve said before, and won’t be tired of repeating: it’s better to target a single faulty area at once and release a fix for that area than wait 6 months for a monster fix to fix them all…
Later,
Madruga
May 17th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Interestingly here in the U.K. a number of PC builders are using, ‘We still give you the choice of XP’ as a selling point! I notice that Dell were forced to start offering XP again as well. I have Vista on my **fast** secondary PC for testing purposes, and the only way I can describe the sensation of using it, is as claustrophobic. All the time it feels like you are wading through treacle, buried under tons of sluggish animations, constant security dialogs and agonisingly long pauses when you try and do anything. It completely breaks my train of thought when I try and do anything with it. My perfect OS would be an updated version of Windows 2000 to XP levels of compatability, I’m certainly in no rush to ‘upgrade’ to Vista for day to day usage and I bet most businesses won’t be stampeding to upgrade so that they can… actually what is the point of upgrading to Vista?
May 17th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I’ve been developing a Vista app on Vista with Delphi 2007, and haven’t experienced any problems. Even the help is heads about D2006 help. Index actually works as expected. This is on a Sony laptop with 1 gig of ram and 2 80 gig hard drives.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
No matter how bad Vista is, we all will be there in a several months (just after SP1-2 or a like).
As for Delphi the next important step in programmer’s productivity would be ECO for Win32. Customers want "functions on time" first, comfort UI second and skins (glass frames, etc) third. If it’s business application of cource.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Hi Michael,
Yes, it’s great that Delphi is the first native Vista development platform, and it’s certainly an improvement compared to previous version of Delphi.
We have been able to upgrade our 200K lines Delphi 3/7 project to Delphi 2007 so it now supports Vista, which is great. But we also have the following experiences:
- bds.exe easily allocates 400MB of RAM after a short period of use. We don’t use the "Model view"
- We do experience that the IDE crashes a couple of times per week
- The online help is better than in D2006, but not compared to the help included in e.g. Delphi 3/7. E.g. it’s not possible to look up "AssignFile", but you have to look up "System.AssignFile". I.e. you need to know the namespace of the function you want to find. And the enumerations are not described (look e.g. at "Forms.TFormStyle Enumeration" which just seems to be an auto-generated page)
Working in both VS2005 and D2007, I must say that VS2005 is by far the most robust environment, and CodeGear still have some work to do before D2007 will reach VS2005’s level of robustness.
So my experience is that you should not sell Delphi 2007 on "robustness and stability" but rather on the Vista support and the community support (which I find is very good compared to .NET - e.g. great move to include DUnit, FastMem and FastProject.org code in Delphi, instead of writing you own tools)
May 18th, 2007 at 6:55 am
A friend of mine have recently deleted preinstalled Vista from his new notebook and installed XP. So it is not 40 million reasons. At least one less.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:28 am
A Big mistake by chaining themselfs to the .NET platform, even VS2005 it’s a big solid enviroment that works with a PC with the so called BuySomeRAM.NET Platform.
I think that most of us, (the 95%) hates window vista by itself, its a bad operating system, lets try doing the things good… Like the non-obsolete great Delphi 7.