Re: Newbie questions about Delphi...

Kevinp schrieb:

What is the difference between Delphi and 'Delphi for NET'? Can't one
program do both?

Applications for Windows (native) and .NET require different compilers, just like for VB and VB.NET. But of course you can develop both kinds of applications with the same Delphi IDE.

Does Delphi only work on Windows? Can I write programs for Linux?

As already mentioned, FreePascal/Lazarus is widely compatible with Delphi, and can produce binaries for a wide range of platforms.

Can I do more with Delphi than VB? Is there any real advantage to
switching?

After writing my VB decompiler in VB, I switched to Delphi because it offered me many more features :-)

Delphi is not bound to Access or the proprietary MS database API, what makes the move not so easy. But once you made a database accessible, almost the same methods and controls can be used to work with the database, also in Delphi.

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