"Delphi 2010 in Action" workshop in Luxembourg Hilton Hotel was great fun! It was a really sunny day outside, one of the first spring warm days, but we were there on the level -2... About 20 Delphi developers gathered for this opportunity to see the latest version of Delphi in action. In the morning I have been discussing Delphi in the ToolCloud and the overview of the new IDE features, including IDE Insight, old-school component palette, source code formatter and debugger visualizers. This was ...

Here is my handy collection of links to blog posts and resources related to new Delphi 2010 features. Enjoy and GO DELPHI !!! 1. General Reviews RAD Studio 2010 Review – Part 1: Top 10 "Wings of Wind" blogpost showing new Delphi 2010 splash screen RAD Studio 2010 - Delphi and C++Builder Reviewer's Guide Delphi 2010 Reviewers Guide A few of my favorite IDE features in Delphi 2010, C++Builder 2010, RAD Studio 2010 David I blogs about his favourite new Delphi 2010 IDE features ...

It is such a pleasure to demonstrate Delphi 2010 and C++Builder 2010 to developers in different cities and countries. The feedback everywhere is overwhelmingly positive. Esepcially IDE Insight, DataSnap 2010, Gesturing and Delphi for MacOSX and Linux on the Delphi roadmap. In the last three weeks I have met about 800 Delphi and C++Builder developers in 7 different cities around Europe. Here are some photos from RAD Studio 2010 events. Manchester and London, 2009 September 15th and 16th...

More then 200 Delphi and C++Builder developers gathered last week in Moscow to see all the new features of RAD Studio 2010. Delphi and C++Builder are very popular and strong in Russia. It was such a great fun to press F6 all the time and use the new "IDE Insight" feature to do almost everything in the IDE. Configuring Delphi 2010 to look and feel like Delphi 7 was also nice. Спасибо Москва!...

The new Delphi 2010 and C++Builder 2010 bring a ton of new features in all areas including IDE, Compiler, RTL, VCL, Database and DataSnap. It is probably the easiest to enumerate countless new IDE usability features like IDE Insight, source code formatter, thread debugging, debug visualizers, new Open Tools API and others. These are little productivity improvements that Delphi and C++Builder developer will enjoy in every day coding and using the product. There are some really nice Object Insp...

One of the integrated touch features of the VCL in RAD Studio 2010 is interactive multi-touch gestures. We call them InteractiveGestures because they fire the OnGesture event continuosly as the gesture is performed, allowing UI to be updated to reflect zooming, panning and rotation. InteractiveGestures are accessed from the new Touch property, as seen below:     There are 5 InteractiveGestures: zoom, pan, rotate, two finger tap and press and tap. Responding to an InteractiveGesture is a...

Finally! RAD Studio 2010 is just around the corner which means we can talk about all that new awesome "stuff" we've been working on. Chris Bensen and I have spent a lot of our time working on building a gesturing framework and integrating touch into the VCL. Here's a sneak peek of what's coming:   Most controls now have a Touch property, which hosts everything related to gesturing and touch.   The platform independant gesturing framework uses a mouse, pen or (single) touch and contains ove...

Another enhanced feature in the RAD Studio 2010 and Delphi 2010 IDE is better support for Delphi generics. Both refactoring and Help Insight were updated to support generic types. Refactoring In Delphi 2010, it's now possible to perform rename refactoring on generic type and method symbols: [caption id="attachment_12" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Rename Generic"][/caption] Change Parameters refactoring lets you add or remove procedure or function parameters from a generic pro...

"Where on earth are my sunglasses?" After searching for a full five minutes, I finally find them and get on my way to Embarcadero to take care of more important business. Most of us have set down our keys and forgotten exactly where. We *know* we saw them a while ago, but where exactly? A few seconds delay, or a few minutes, an unwelcome interruption. Valuable neuron time wasted on the mundane. The same problem happens using software. You're happily working away, firmly in the zone, when y...

We have been given the green light to talk about some things that we've been working on for Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 (and Delphi 2010 and C++Builder 2010). I figured that was a good excuse to get started here since I do have a couple new code editor features that I'd like to show off. Search Highlighting The search function of the code editor is one of those workhorse features that gets used all the time. While it does its job well, sometimes it seems that it could be a bit smarter. For exa...