BDE – software to access databases developed by Borland, and used into Delphi and the Builder. Advantages of using BDE is simple configuration and installation, flexibility, high speed work with local and remote databases. In order to determine if you have installed on your computer BDE, you need to go to the Control Panel (Start – Settings – Control Panel). If there is an icon BDE Administrator – meaning that BDE installed. If the version is lower than 5.0 it is advised to download and install the new version. Those programs that use the software BDE to work with the data available for download in two versions – with and without the BDE. If the BDE installed on your computer, you can download versions, for instance Builder and Delphi without BDE – they were significantly smaller in volume.

Delphi 2005 provides a single integrated development environment (IDE) for all types of software (for example, Win32 on Pascal or .NET for C #), but it automatically takes into account the characteristics of each type of development. The new version of Delphi has a choice: You can use a “floating designer” or embedded designer .NET-style. It is very convenient way to a new version of Delphi is a window of structures (Structure Pane), the contents of which depends on the main window design, involved in this moment.
In Delphi 2005 improved color components (Component Palette). Previously, it served only to select and transfer to the form required components, but now it can create new projects, files and objects, as well as gain access to existing masters (Wizards) and use standard snippets of code. The new version of Delphi expanded the means of choice of components from the palette: to type the name of the object, and the palette automatically open a list of suitable components. In Delphi 2005 is now sold in the form of dragging components using drag & drop, similar to that previously had to be double-click (though this method is preserved in the new version).
In Delphi 2005 expanded set of visual components for VCL-applications. Especially enriched library of components for applications .NET, which facilitates the transfer of projects to the new Win32 platforms.Object Inspector, in new version of Delphi, was also improved. In new version of Delphi, it allows you to view and modify the characteristics of objects, selected in Project Manager, for example, rename files belonging to the project.In Delphi 2005 has grown a set of masters, due primarily to the support of different platforms and programming languages. Among other additions Delphi 2005 and improvements were the means to import or export .NET-projects in the language C# between Delphi 2005 and Visual Studio .NET, full support for UTF-8 in all components of the master and IDE, as well as built-in shell means of in Borland reports emerged mistakes.
Delphi 2005 includes support for processing applications (Refactoring). For ease of Delphi in 2005 introduced a special dialog box to declare a local variable or field recordings. This possibility is supported only for the language Object Pascal. Delphi 2005 includes a means of rapid “disable” block of code by placing feature commentary (“//”) characters at the beginning of each line. To library of visual components (VCL) for .NETVCL for .NET in Delphi 2005 added new components and new mechanism of calling function in normal DLL platform Win32, – virtual libraries (Virtual Library Interface, VLI).
The composition of Delphi 2005 includes three compiler. One of them, have licensed by Microsoft, provides broadcast applications developed in the language C#, in the intermediate language (Intermediate Language, IL) platform .NET. Two other compiler Delphi 2005 developed Borland corporation and provide broadcast programs in the language Object Pascal in the machine code for execution on a platform Win32 or IL-code for use on the platform .NET.
Compared with previous versions of Delphi syntax of the language Object Pascal was slightly enlarged. For instance, introduced a new cycle for … in, which ensures a consistent enumeration of the collection and its function is similar cycle foreach language C#.
Delphi 2005 has two debugger: a platform for Win32, the other – for the platform .NET. The ability of both instruments are close enough, and differ only in that part which depends on the platform.
Lifecycle Management applications Delphi 2005 provides full access from IDE to all opportunities Borland StarTeam – management teamwork, ensures version control, requirements management, bug tracking, support panels and remote development. In addition to Delphi in 2005 included many other innovations. While virtually every improvement is not something fundamentally new, to bring them together in a single enabled the corporation Borland has been the third time to withdraw funds to develop applications on a qualitatively different level.

The Watcom C/C++ compiler is esteemed amongst DOS developers by the high execution speed of the compiled code it produces and for having been one of the first compilers to support the Intel 80386 “protected mode”. Though no longer sold commercially by Sybase, the Watcom C/C++ compiler and the Watch Fortran compiler have been made available as the open source Open Watcom package with the assistance of SciTech Software. The code is portable, and like many other open source compiler projects such as gcc, the watcom compiler backend (code generator) is retargetable. The open watcom compiler can be operated from, and generate executable code for, the DOS, OS/2 and Windows operating systems. Open watcom also supports NLM targets for Novell NetWare. There is ongoing work to retarget it for the Linux and modern BSD (eg. FreeBSD) operating systems, running on x86, PowerPC and other processors. The Open Watcom C/C++ version 1.4 release on December 2005 has Linux x86 as an experimental target, supported from NT or OS/2 host platforms. There is code for an abandoned QNX version, but libraries necessary for it to be compiled could not be released as open source. The current version of Watcom is 1.7a was released in October 2007.

The Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 (BCC) is the foundation and core technology of C++ Builder 5. Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 is a fast 32-bit optimizing compiler. It includes the latest ANSI/ISO C++ language support, including the STL (Standard Template Library) framework and C++ template support and the complete Borland C/C++ Runtime Library (RTL). Also included in the free download are the Borland C/C++ command line tools such as the high performance Borland linker and resource compiler.

The free download software includes:

• Borland C++ Command Line Tools
• Borland C++ Compiler v5.5 (bcc32)
• Borland Turbo Incremental Linker (tlink32)
• Borland Resource Compiler / Binder (brc32, brcc32)
• C++ Win32 Preprocessor (cpp32)
• ANSI/OEM character set file conversion utility (fconvert)
• Import Definitions utility to provide information about DLLs (impdef)
• Import Library utility to create import libraries from DLLs (implib)
• Borland Turbo Dump to structurally analyse EXE, OBJ and LIB files (tdump)
• Librarian for symbol case-conversion, creating extended libraries and modifying page size (tlib)

Included Libraries

• Borland C/C++ Runtime Library
• ANSI/ISO Standard Template Library (STL)

In my opinion it is not convenient option, in compared to graphical application DevCpp, but, perhaps, someone finds it in another way.