C++ Builder 2007 Announced

Just in case anyone missed the announcement. If this comes out before Orcas then CodeGear will have two IDE's released that specifically support developing for Vista and Microsoft will have 0. Looks like things are returning back to the way they were.

Key features and capabilities provided by C++Builder include:

• Seamless support for Microsoft Windows Vista Aero, Vista Desktop and Vista APIs
• Increased ANSI C++ conformance and compatibility including Boost and Dinkumware C++ library support
• New C++ build flexibility and custom configurations powered by the Microsoft MSBuild engine
• Up to 5 times in-IDE build performance improvements over prior versions
• UML C++ source code visualization
• Integrated C++ unit testing
• New DBX 4 RAD data access with support for the latest versions of popular RDBMs including CodeGear InterBase®, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL®, Oracle®, IBM® DB2, and Sybase®
• C++ IDE enhancements including virtual folders and enhanced C++ structure pane
• New INDY 10 Internet Protocol component suite

Read the press release

Free Turbo Delphi, C++ or C#

Just in case you some how missed it, you can get a free Turbo product from Borland / CodeGear. You your choice of Delphi for .NET, Delphi for Win32, C# Builder or C++ Builder, but you can only have one installed at a time. They are based on Delphi 2006. The catch for the free version (called Explorer) is you cannot install components, add-ins, etc. and can only have one version installed at a time. You can buy the Pro version for just a little bit more and lift those restrictions.

[TurboExplorer.com]

Future version will be based on the newer Delphi IDE's. I suspect that after they come out with Delphi Studio 2007 (guessing on the name) with support for .NET, Delphi, C# and C++ then they will have an updated Turbo release. They hinted they may change the restrictions some then too.

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Delphi 2007 IDE Multi-Monitor Support

Last night Steve asked if you could change the docked and embedded Delphi 2007 IDE to look like Delphi 7 and earlier where everything is undocked and the designer is not embedded in the same window as the code. This is especially nice if you have multiple monitors! I couldn't remember how to do this at the time. Nick Hodges, the Delphi Product Manager at CodeGear, just made a great video showing how to undock and unembed the IDE so it looks more like Delphi 7 and earlier.

The video only takes about 2 minutes and is part of his 2 minute tutorial series.

[Watch]

For the record, you CANNOT have a docked IDE with an unembedded form designer. If you skip the step he includes of switching to undocked, and just uncheck the Embedded Form designer option it switches you to undocked automatically.

Here is what to do, if you don't want to watch the video:

In the Delphi 2007 IDE go to Tools / Options, which brings up the Options dialog. From there go to Environment Options / VCL Designer in the tree on the left. Then in the Options box on the right uncheck the Embedded designer check box. Restart the IDE and you are reliving the good old days!

Lets see you do that in Visual Studio! Multi-monitors is a huge performance improvement, so anything that takes better advantage of that is a great thing.

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