Re: First day with production development on D2005

>> Well, back to D7 we go again.
>>
>
> Hi Atle,
>
> I think most of your problems might be caused by a bad component install.
> I've begun to use the manual approach when installing components and I
> always install one at a time and then restart the IDE.
>
> Whenever I get an IDE exception I immediately restart the IDE and remove
> the last package I installed, and then try again. Also, I found that it's
> a good idea to keep a strict eye on the search path and where the compiled
> packages go. I always compile them into the default \Projecs\Bpl folder
> and override any settings the author of the package have set.
>
> Using D2005 Arch, I also found that if you have the source path of the
> components in the search path, performance suffers badly. This is
> especially true if you have a lot of components installed.
>
> One more thing I remembered is that I always turn off IMPLICIT BUILD in
> any packages I install. I want to recompile the package and know about it.
>
> Using these steps above, I have successfully installed D2005 Arch on my
> new computer, using all components from Developer Express (both Win32 and
> .Net), FastReports Enterprise, RemObjects RO+DA+Hydra2, Pragnaan Export
> Filters for FR, Raize 3, Shell Control Pack, some TMS stuff and TeeChart
> Pro 7 along with all the stuff that came installed with D2005A. It's even
> running at an acceptable pace and I'm really now starting to prefer using
> D2005 over D7.
>
> I know doing things this way takes a lot of time. I think I used a full
> day just go get the environment up and running.
>
> BTW. One thing I have noticed when opening large projects: when you first
> open a large project and then double click a datamodule or form, the
> editor window will show the source and Delphi starts parsing something in
> the background before showing the design-surface. Don't do anything like
> double clicking another form before it actually displays the
> design-surface! If you do, you will get an exception in coreide and the
> IDE will get unstable. Be patient the first time and it will run fine from
> there.

>Hope this helps,

Thank you for posting, but no help here.

I have tested each component, everything is set up properly. I setup batch
files to build everything properly also without the IDE (just adjusted these
for D2005). I never touch the source catalogs with library path except from
very special occations. Dcu files etc. goes into own catalogs named as the
compiler version (D7, D9 etc). Source code inside the library path will be
recompiled every time you build so it's no wonder it goes slow when you do
that.. There is also very little chance that the problems I am having are
caused by the components, and not by the IDE.

Another thing is that the debugger often has problems, and often you end up
losing the debug connection between D2005 and the program. Then you have to
restart the IDE to get things up again. The performance is still very slow
and not acceptable for a working environment. Opening projects take a lot of
time, and creating new Datamodules etc.

Right now I was working/testing with some tcp client/server applications.
Many threads involved etc. And I have two IDE's open at the same time. One
for a client, and one for a server. So twise as many crashed inside D2005 :)

No problems anywhere near this in D7, so I will quickly go back to that
environment again.


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