Re: purchasing d2005

Stephane Wierzbicki <swierzbicki@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> This is MY PERSONNAL experience with D2005.
>
> I'm really tired getting A.V. and writing Auto Reports...
> The majority of my QC are on a "Reported" Stade and they seems not being
> tracked by any Borland Tech. Some of my QC are SHOW STOPPERS.

I would think that the first "Show Stopper" would pretty much end your use of
D2005 until it was fixed, by definition.

>
> Do you think it is normal to disable about 75% (ASP / C# / DELPHI .NET)
> of D2005 to make it "almost" works (still have to deal with A.V and some
> other nasty designer bugs)...

I have no idea what type of development you are doing in D2005, so I have no
way to know how normal your experience is likely to be. I do think it is
probably par for the course to disable those parts you don't want or need
when a product makes it possible. I do know that this new ability in D2005 to
disable/remove parts of it is a great improvement, because it allows me to
speed up the loading time, and insulate me from bugs and instability that
might be introduced by those parts. I load only what I need for my Win32
native code. I don't do any ASP, .NET or C#, so I don't load those parts.
That was a Good Thing(tm) too, since some pieces of D2005 were introducing
instability, even after patch #3.

Would it be nice to be able to load those parts too, without introducing
instability, even if I don't need or use them? Sure, but the product I have
left after I take them out is still better now, to me, than D7 was. And I
paid no more for D2005 Pro than I paid for D7 Pro. So I'm not complaining. I
paid the same for something that is more than I had before, even after I take
out all the parts I've taken out.

>
> Do you think it is normal to loose your code (IDE Crash), to be stressed
> by a product which bugs a lot of time in a day ?, to loose time wrting
> reports that anybody doesn't care ! So tell me, where is my productivity ?

Obviously, it is determined by D7, since show stoppers keep you from using
D2005.

>
> Do you think it is normal to spend 2500$ for something that doesn't do
> what it is ment to do ?

Personally, I've never seen the point in buying the high end versions of past
Delphi's. ECO sounds very interesting, and I can't get that in the Pro
versions I always buy, but I still buy the pro versions for my own
programming (except for D7, which I skipped buying).

> And please, don't tell me to buy any premium
> support ! This is not MY PROBLEM, THIS IS BORLAND PROBLEM. We have
> purchased something THAT DOESN'T WORKS... and Borland is making UNTHRUTH
> ADVERTISING about their product.

I have no idea why some people seem to have a ton of problems with D2005
while I have found ways to get D2005 Pro to be less unstable than D7 Pro in
the ways that I use it. I just know that I am using a rather common brand
name PC (Gateway), with a rather common brand name operating system (Windows
XP Media Center Edition), and doing rather commonplace Win32 native coding,
and for me, D2005 is currently much better than with any prior Delphi. In
fact, every time you see the below signature in a post of mine, it has been
written from within a debug session in D2005 Pro. I don't run my newsreader
outside of D2005.

My recommendation for everyone reading this, that is doing Win32 programming,
is to buy D2005 Pro, and buy and install ModelMakerTools' CodeExplorer and
UMLExplorer and/or ModelMaker, and download JED's Delphi Configuration
Manager. Install all of this on a good fast PC with 1GB of RAM. Configure
Delphi using DCM to exclude unneeded stuff*.

*Perhaps I ought to post a screenshot of my DCM settings to the binary group,
would anyone be interested in that?

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