Re: My Vista/Delphi/Dev experience

There are many nice things in Vista, especially for developers. How about being able to add as many websites as you like in IIS7? No more restricting you to one website unless you run the server OS.

Cool but I do not use windows/IIS to run my website


There are also tremendous improvements to the rendering of applications under the new UI framework, meaning the applications aren't constantly having to respond to WM_PAINT; the OS takes care of caching the information needed in GDI and then renders it using DX.

At the expense of consuming more resources. Could've been done
better and there is no need for new OS to implement the feature

Much more performant, and you don't get dead windows that render artifacts due to not processing messages.

Hmm. I do not recall seeing those.



The improvements to explorer are great. The breadcrumb trail in the address bar is inarguably a great new feature, and allows for much quicker folder navigation. Being able to group and do advanced sorting and stacking in explorer is great.

I use Total Commander as file manager and wish no better. It is much much faster and convenient in performing my day to day work.
Try to do multi renaming for example n explorer in the
same style you can do in commander. It just pathetic

Being able to instantly search in folders is great. I can't count how many times, in the past, I've gone to C:\Windows\System32 (either in explorer or an Open/Save dialog) and wished there was *some* way just to see the bpl's. Why hello there Vista :). Just type .bpl in the search and, presto, results.

Same thing in commander


And the advanced search features are great. How about if I wanted all of the unprotected music on my PC to put on a device that doesn't support protected content. I can navigate to the folder that has my music (in subfolders or not) and just type protected:no in the search box and almost instantly I have my results.

Great. But I would not touch protected media with 10 foot pole


System Restore is also amazing this time around. I actually leave it on on all drives. The System Restore in XP was crummy. Now it uses volume shadow copying. I've done all sorts of testing and restores on Vista over the months. Worked great every time. The Previous Versions feature is a nice addition to System Restore. Files on drives you have flagged for System Restore get individually backed up. I love the history in Delphi 2006. Sometimes I wish I had that in other apps. Now I do.

Well tht is great. I do it in much simplier fashion. HD clone
once in a while and daily backups



Give it some time. Don't just install it, realize you have to change some of your code for your app to work, see too many UAC prompts and declare it rubbish. There really are nice things about it.

It is not changing my code. It is my first hand experience and
it tells me that they got nothing new and exciting for me.
Again it is my own opinion. The others feel different.
That how the world usually is. Nothing wrong with that
.

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