So I wanted to look up something on Oracs, the as yet unreleased development tool from Microsoft for Vista. So I went to Firefox and typed Orcas into the Google search box. The first hit that came up was on Wikipedia and it turned out to be on Orca (the singular of Orcas). I actually learned a lot.
I knew Orca where killer whales, and I knew they were related to dolphins. What surprised me was that dolphins and killer whales are both in the Delphinidae family. I thought that was really revealing that Microsoft choose that as the code name for their product, especially now that they are playing catch up with Delphi again. In case you didn't know, CodeGear (FKA Borland) now has two IDE's (Delphi 2007 and C++ Builder 2007) released that support Microsoft's Windows Vista, while Microsoft doesn't have one released yet.
Now someone pointed out that you can use .NET 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005 to get some Vista support, but from my understanding you still don't get Sheet of Glass support on your forms, or some of the other neato Aero effects without writing extra code. And to be fair, CodeGear's 2007 releases don't support .NET 3.0 or much of the specific functionality only exposed through .NET 3.0 - then again, it is a native Win32 development tool, so of course it doesn't support .NET.
The significant fact is that CodeGear has two actual releases for Vista before Microsoft does. There are a number of great innovations in Delphi 2007 that Microsoft is yet to copy.
In related news, CodeGear released their Delphi Roadmap, which shows plans for Highlander to be released this year with support for .NET 2.0 and compatibility with .NET 3.0.
It is nice to see Delphi out in front again.
Score: Development tool releases for Vista
- CodeGear: 2
- Microsoft: 0
6 comments:
With CodeGear's foolhardy attempt to extend the Delphi name to their PHP offerings to give it some credibility, Visual Studio would qualify as a "delphi" language, so even there, Orcas would be a delphi product.
Wow, this is the first time I've seen the word "innovation" used to mean "assemble a hodge podge of techniques that have been circulating in community projects for months, put them in the box, make them work not quite as well as they do in those community projects and while we're at it claim to have comprehensively address the help system yet release one that is in many respects worse than what we had in the previous release".
But yes, if that's what you meant, then D2007 represents a great deal of" innovation".
Sheesh - I love Delphi - have done since I first started using it, more than a decade ago, but this rose tinted blindness in some quarters is just getting ridiculous - how can we expect CodeGear to up their game when we keep patting them on the back for churning out rubbish?
"It is nice to see Delphi out in front again."
yeah right... just because it supports some minor features of that crap OS Vista you think it's "ahead"? The quality/stability of D2007 is pathetic compared to VS2005. And let not even start about the Help or i'm going to cry. Yes, the last few releases of D were disappointing, yes D2007 is better than it's recent predecessors, but it's still waaay below what i expected. To say the truth i don't see much in D2007 to justify an upgrade from D2006. I'm using VS for a year now, and before that about 6 years of D, and VS is light years ahead. I'm sorry. I've had about as much errors in VS in a year than i had in D2007 in a couple of days.
Guys,
If you feel so strongly, why are you posting anonymously?
I use Delphi 2007 and VS2005 side by side pretty much every day and I agree with the OP for a lot of reasons.
Delphi 2007 (R2) is the best delphi ever, bar none. Whinging aside.
Warren
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