Re: Has Borland surpassed our expectations?

John Jacobson aka Captain Jake wrote:

> As a Win32 developer (so far), I find myself
> really wishing ECO would find
> it's way into the Win32 personality of BDS Pro

Perhaps you could use this as an excuse to dip your toes into the .NET
pond. I can't say I'm a big fan of the WinForms framework, but ECO
makes it tolerable. This is why I'm really looking forward to the ECO
VCL.NET support promised in Highlander, and why I've been taking the
time to investigate how I can use ECO and VCL.NET together in D2005.

It may require a bit more code than using WinForms, but I find it still
provides me with great productivity enhancements over the more
traditional TDataset based VCL.NET DB development. I may have to still
write code to hook up my presentation layer to my business objects, but
gone are the days when I need to write oodles of code to populate my BO
layer from the persistence mechanism.

Besides, there's been a trend in my VCL Win32 apps to populate the GUI
manually anyway, with databound controls seldom used (usually to bind
to an in-memory dataset). And if you absolutely, positively *must* use
databound controls, there's always the TListConnector control.

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