Delphi Road Map...

[savage]

If you are wondering what Borland's plans for Delphi are, then make sure you have a look on Borland Developer Network site. Subjects coverer are...

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2005: ?¢_oDelphi DeXter?¢__

2006: ?¢_oDelphi Highlander?¢__

2007: ?¢_oDelphi Longhorn?¢__

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The highlight for me is..

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The ?¢_oHighlander?¢__ release will focus on updating the entire Delphi toolset to support .NET 2.0. There will be ongoing work for Win32 Delphi and Win32 C++ (such as unit testing and additional refactorings) but the most of the new work in Highlander will be focused on .NET 2.0. Highlander will add Delphi.NET support for generic types, partial classes, and nullable types, and all WinForms, Web Services, and ADO.NET support will be converted to support .NET 2.0. VCL, BDP, and ECO will all support .NET 2.0 as transparently as possible to minimize migration issues for customers. Delphi Highlander will fully support existing Delphi projects, including existing ASP.NET projects, and will provide seamless project conversion to .NET 2.0.

Highlander will include IDE design surfaces for .NET Compact Frameworks (using VCL.NET on CF), as well as support for transparently developing and debugging 64 bit .NET apps written using WinForms and VCL.NET. In addition, 64 bit code generation will be added to the Delphi native code compliers to support native 64 bit development and debugging. The phased approach to Unicode will continue in Highlander and through the subsequent Longhorn release, with enhancements to both the IDE and VCL runtimes to support Unicode.

The current plan is to release Highlander in calendar year 2006, with tech preview builds available for download by registered Delphi customers shortly after .NET 2.0 is released.

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What bits of this roadmap excite you??

[savage]

Though no mention of Kylix anywhere .

[Traveler]

I haven't really looked into all of this. Unless I can pursuade my boss to upgrade D5, I very much doubt I'll be able to work with these new toys. I suspect the costs to be well above my personal budget

[LP]

I actually thought that 2007 year version will be called "Delphi 2007 Immortal" or "Delphi 2007 of McLoud Clan".

[size=9px]Who is picking these names anyway?[/size]

[savage]

I actually thought that 2007 year version will be called "Delphi 2007 Immortal" or "Delphi 2007 of McLoud Clan".

Hehe, that would be funny

I bet they called it Highlander because "There can be only one!"

Who is picking these names anyway?

Isn't Longhorn a Microsoft name?? Maybe their moving away from movie titles and going for bovine orientated names.