Borland & Shanghai

As a commonProgramHow do people or customers persuade Borland To Do Something (what development or support?

"Show us the money." Says Danny Thorpe, a veteran of Borland's Delphi and. net, because "We won't create an art for artistic reasons ".

This answer really hurt the hearts of loyal Borland product users. One person replied that there is actually another better way: "Stop using Borland products ", the other person said, "todays Borland... more comercial. more trash. less art. less passion. less innovation. less imagination. where's Borland before? ".

It seems that what Borland wants to do now is to fulfill the promises it made in the past as soon as possible to appease the hearts of many programmers who still support Borland.

According to Borland's plan, Delphi 7.1 will be released in the second quarter of this year. This may be the last Delphi version that supports the Win32 platform (I guess ), borland has planned to integrate future versions of Delphi Win32 into Delphi. net, developed in a unified IDE. net and Win32 programs.

If I am a Delphi programmer, embracing. Net all may be the smartest choice. Delphi2cs is a very interesting product, which can be called Delphi7 (not the same. NET platform's delphi8.. Net project. The VCL control is automatically converted to the corresponding winforms control.

Walkthrough: SharePoint webpart Getting Started Guide has written three series. Thank you for your support and encouragement. In the next series, we plan to write a relatively simple webpart deployment (cab and MSI), which should be completed quickly. However, there will be a complicated content in the future, that is, connection webpart. You have no idea how to write a walkthrough about it. If you have some good resources, please let me know.

I am going to attend the MVP meeting in Shanghai tomorrow. It is certainly a pleasure to gather with other MVPs. However, unfortunately, there is no chance to go to Beijing to really meet the really nice thing, huh, huh.