D2005 is Kewl
From: Captain Jake (jake[nospam)
Date: 11/28/04
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:17:46 -0600
I finally have a little time to explore D2005, and the first thing that
wowed me was that I could open an old C# project I had from C# Builder.
There was the C# code in all it's glory, shining forth in this shiny hot rod
IDE. Kewl.
I love the fact that I can finally use a unified IDE instead of those silly
VB3 undocked panes. I wish I had a dollar for everytime I had accidentally
clicked on another program underneath them.
I have had D2005 Architect Demo open since installation now and I haven't
seen any sign whatsoever of the memory leak that Dave Jewell claimed to have
encountered.
The refactoring seems OK, but I don't think the guys at ModelMaker have
anything to worry about when it comes to competition for their superb
CodeExplorer tool. In fact, it seems to me that the refactoring in D2005
acts as a nice complement to CodeExplorer. This is especially true given the
support CodeExplorer has for parameterized code templates.
The unit test wizards are awfully convenient, I must say.
Micro-version differencing/backup/etc. is something I've been looking for
for a long time. Yay!
But...There are times when it becomes evident that I will need more memory
or CPU in order to conveniently use D2005. I've only got 512MB on this
laptop, but I've watched D2005's memory usage peak at over 300MB. All the
ensuing thrashing brought everything to a crawl for a few minutes, though
everything was OK after that thrashing was over.
Overall, this looks like one of the biggest Delphi upgrades ever. If I was
into .NET programming (yet) it would be even bigger, because of the support
for VB.NET, C# and Delphi projects in the same project groups. This means
that one could take .NET sample code from all those .NET code web sites and
not even have to translate them in order to use them. That's cool. D2005 is
like the Rossetta Stone of languages for .NET then, as no other IDE lets you
mix Delphi, C# and VB (and probably C++ soon) in the same project group.
I'll definitely upgrade, but not right this split second*. I'm waiting for
the D2005 event here with JK so I can get that $299 upgrade price. That
would be SO sweet. I'll have paid barely a tad over half what the supposedly
cheaper VS.NET upgrade would have cost me. That pleasure is worth waiting a
month more.
*I've got a lot of stuff installed in D7 that I need, so upgrading is *not*
a trivial exercise. (BTW, every third-party tool/library I use is already
available for D2005, which seems quite different than when D8 came out.)
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