Comprehensive analysis of Delphi 2006 new features

The obvious difference between Borland and other software vendors has been in its pragmatic approach-providing the most appropriate and competitive development tool for today's developers, while at the same time guiding them to understand the future of the new technology, and make it believe that their development investment will guarantee the future relevance , adaptable and scalable in an invincible position.

This article from a Delphi developer perspective, the latest release of the product to make a comprehensive introductory introduction. It involves some features across languages such as Delphi,c++ and C #, but focuses only on the development capabilities of Delphi.

Delphi 2006 is the version of Delphi, is Borland's flagship rapid application development (RAD) environment, and adhering to the RAD tradition of Delphi for software developers in many ways to make a significant expansion.

First, new features

Now, Delphi 2006 is considered to be part of the Borland Developer Studio (BDS) product set; The entire product includes Delphi 2006,c++builder 2006 and C#builder 2006 (Independent sales), And each section provides varying degrees of support to other languages only because of the differences in versions (Professional, Enterprise, and architectural). Here, we want to focus on the capabilities offered by the Delphi 2006 architecture version. As can be seen from Figure 1, there are four different language "personalities" for the whole product.

Figure 1:delphi 2006 's "Personality"

(i) Personality

Since many organizations are already running a large number of software applications and software services, they are often more focused on the perfect business functions, reusing existing, well written, and proven systems, rather than "splitting and replacing" just to use the latest technology Only a handful of companies can take on such adventures. And this is one of the advantages of Delphi 2006, as shown in Figure 2, as a mix of different engineering types, it can be used frequently in the development of a multifaceted commercial system.