The main working space Delphi 8 is made on manners Visual Studio – clearly divided into functional zones, each of which is related dock panel. For those, who are past the paradigm of Borland in the workspace more like, Delphi 8 provides context Classic Undocked.Code Editor in Delphi 8 has mode to display the lines and automatic (or manual) separation regions (regions), to hide or show snippets of code – it helps to focus on the writing of a single procedure and better understand the structure of the program as a whole.
Also, a new version of Delphi uses a modernized system of documentation MS Help 2 – the one in a format which is supplied all the background MSDN and Visual Studio.
Having decided to postpone such a rich, while a simple programming language, such as Object Pascal, to the platform .NET, developers of Delphi 8, of course, tried to limit the minimum change its syntax and semantics (for greater compatibility with the past and future packages), but nevertheless does not come without them. In order to adapt to the Object Pascal language environment CLR, has had to replenish its arsenal of many new designs.
Among the notable improvements in Delphi 8 is perhaps worth noting and overload in class operators Delphi, such as bit and arithmetic operations comparison, Bitwise advances and explicit and implicit conversion types.
Pleasant surprise for fans of Delphi may be the fact that Delphi 8, except support WinForms (part of the library for designing FCL UI) also contains a nearly complete set of ported to .NET VCL-components, not just visual.
With regard to work with remote information sources and access to databases with the help of Delphi, there is the possibility of Delphi 8 very broad. First, Delphi 8 as an IDE, aimed at the creation .NET-applications that can make full use of high grades and access to databases of the API ADO .NET. Secondly, to replace the inefficient means of OLE DB .NET, which are functions of COM Interop to communicate with conventional libraries OLE DB, containing unmanageable (not managed) code, and because of this very loose in performance, the company Borland in Delphi 8 has created its own set of classes access to various databases Borland Data Providers, BDP .NET. This API devoid of such shortcomings, because actually developed from scratch. It allows for direct access to “storage” of information: Oracle, Interbase, DB2, MSDE and MS SQL Server.
Using Delphi 8, of course, you can create a full-fledged Web-service applications and ASP .NET. But, the last being developed solely for the use of technology Code Behind, when the code is made to an external module, and compiled separately from html-page that contains the user interface. Also Delphi doesn’t recognized scripting procedures introduced directly into the code aspx-page.
The new version of Delphi is fully embodies the new paradigm of rapid application development, known as Borland MDA (Model Driven Architecture). It allows you to create a model program in schematic form, and, of course, it was based on a subset of language UML, known as Object Constraint Language (OCL). Once in a special box diagram completed outline a hierarchy of classes, to enter another flagship technology Borland – ECO (Enterprise Core Objects). It is a kind of “layer” between high-level schemes of MDA and code Object Pascal, which consists of a set of interfaces, classes and attributes. After a generation of classes IDE automatically connects to the active draft the necessary modules and fills them accordingly – creating interfaces, classes, implementing they add methods, fields and properties. ECO options allow flexibility to update the structure of applications after the scheme is transformed, which represents it, or vice versa – will automatically modify charts code consistent as revised. Navigating between these two views either directly , switching from the code window in the window scheme (in this case is automatically allocated to the class that corresponds to the current code snippet), or through the new panel Model View (indeed, users of C# Builder has certainly familiar with it), which charts are displayed in a hierarchical structure. It allows users to track the hierarchy of classes and their affiliation to the different working spaces names.
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