Borland® ™ 8 for the ® .NET Framework Technical Overview

Make the move with Borland® Delphi™ 8 for the Microsoft® .NET Framework, ACCELERATE YOUR DEVELOPMENT the Delphi evolution for the .NET revolution

Borland® Delphi™ 8 for the Microsoft® .NET Framework, Architect Edition is your evolution for the .NET revolution. Simplify your move to .NET today with Delphi RAD development for the Microsoft .NET Framework, including VCL Forms, Windows® Forms, ASP.NET, Web Forms, Web Services, ADO.NET, and more. Developers can immediately use their Delphi language and framework skills and many of their existing investments in Delphi application source code to start developing Windows applications for .NET today. Delphi 8 includes Borland® Enterprise Core Objects (ECO™) for design-driven development and Borland® Optimizeit™ Profiler for the Microsoft® .NET Framework to help developers identify and remove performance hazards. Delphi 8 is pure .NET and pure Delphi.

New streamlined IDE features, including a rich multifunction and extendable palette, enhanced Object Inspector,™ project management, debugging, and editor, help increase developer productivity

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Rapidly build rich and reliable applications with .NET and Delphi productivity Delphi language with VCL controls for the Microsoft .NET Combine Delphi 8 and the power of the Microsoft .NET Framework to Framework, which are backward-compatible with most of your existing quickly develop robust Web applications with ASP.NET Web Forms and Delphi source code and interoperable with the .NET Framework, to create XML Web Services, and rich GUI applications with Windows Forms and powerful .NET applications. Delphi 8 also supports dbExpress,™ Borland® VCLfor .NET Forms. Then, connect to your of choice more Database Engine (BDE), and Express™ (IBX) data access quickly and easily with ADO.NET and the Borland® Data Provider (BDP) for architectures to ease the migration of your database applications to .NET. .NET. Create a truly model-driven application design system with Borland Upgrade your Delphi investments with .NET Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) for .NET. ECO seamlessly integrates application UML™ modeling development and maintenance, thereby The Microsoft .NET Framework offers multi-language support, enabling maintaining the integrity of the design throughout the development your teams to use Delphi in multi-language .NET projects. Give your lifecycle through to deployment. business a competitive advantage by sharing components and source with over 20 .NET programming languages while developing for the leading- Simplify the move to .NET by using your existing Delphi skills edge Windows® platform. Increase the reliability, security, interoperability, and assets and capabilities of your Delphi-based products by migrating them to the Delphi 8 provides the familiar object-oriented Delphi environment you are .NET platform today. accustomed to with Delphi language syntax, VCL controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework, and database connectivity. Combine the high- BORLAND® DELPHI™ 8 FOR THE MICROSOFT® .NET FRAMEWORK Professional Enterprise Architect Agile architecture, rapid development, and improved operations with the Microsoft® .NET Framework Borland® Delphi™ RAD development for the Microsoft® .NET Framework, including VCL Forms, Windows® Forms, ASP.NET, Web Forms, Web Services, ADO.NET, and more ••• Integrated Delphi language compiler, debugger, editor with CodeInsight™ and ErrorInsight,™ and LiveTools such as Windows Forms, VCL Forms and Web Forms designers, Object Inspector, and more ••• Microsoft .NET Framework functionality, including data access, image generation, XML, regular expressions, performance monitoring and logging, transactions, file upload, message queuing, and more ••• XML Web Services, Web Forms, Windows Forms .NET GUI applications, Windows .NET CUI (Console User Interface) applications, services, utilities, and components offer the full capabilities of the Microsoft .NET SDK (included) ••• Borland® Data Provider (BDP) for ADO.NET simplifies database access in .NET applications and provides seamlessly “switchable” enterprise license drivers for Borland InterBase,® IBM® DB2,® Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000, and Oracle 9i™ •• Borland Data Provider (BDP) for ADO.NET with high-performance seamlessly “switchable” local licensed database drivers for Borland InterBase, MSDE 2000, and Microsoft® Access • • •

Accelerating model-powered development Borland® Enterprise Core Objects (ECO™) runtime platform provides an instant model-powered .NET enterprise architecture and automatic object-level capabilities such as transactions, caching, versioning, and querying • ECO object-relational persistence mapper provides seamless model-powered mapping of cached objects to SQL and XML files • Visually create and edit the UML™ model with the LiveSource™ model designer, powered by Borland Together® technology, and import and export UML models between Delphi™ and a variety of popular modeling tools • Delphi Code Visualization powered by Borland Together technology provides a live UML model view of your Delphi code at all times •••

Superior Web development with ASP.NET Borland® DB Web Controls make creating rich data-driver ASP.NET applications a snap •• Powerful, yet easy to use WYSIWYG HTML/Web forms designer for rapidly building rich ASP.NET Web applications •••

Advanced enterprise development tools include code behind, remote debugging, ASP.NET, and HTML code completion ••• Easily create ASP.NETXML Web Services, and easily add XML Web Services that run on other machines to your .NET applications •••

Visual Component Library (VCL) for the Microsoft .NET Framework Standard set of familiar VCL controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework with VCL Visual Form inheritance and Form linking ••• Import and use standard third-party Win Forms Controls in .NET applications using VCL ••• Support for dbExpress™ data access architecture, Borland® Database Engine (BDE) local database access (® and dBASE®), and DataSnap (formerly MIDAS) clients •••

Powerful Borland solutions and integrated third-party support Borland Optimizeit™ Profiler for the Microsoft .NET Framework • Integrated Borland StarTeam® 5.4 Standard configuration management system •• Borland Delphi™ 7, Borland CaliberRM™ plug-in client UI, Borland InterBase Developer Edition, Borland InterBase Express,™ ComponentOne® Studio Enterprise for Borland® Delphi™ 8, Indy components, InstallShield Express™ Borland Edition, Rave Reports,® WiseOwl Demeanor for .NET, Personal Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and IBM DB2 •••

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Intel® Pentium® II-class processor, 450 MHz • 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended) ® ® (Intel Pentium III-class processor, 850 MHz+ recommended) • 700 MB hard disk space; 600 MB hard disk space (Professional Edition) ® • Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 • CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive Microsoft Windows XP,® Professional Windows® 2000, Professional • SVGA orhigher resolution monitor Windows® 2000 Server • Mouse orother pointing device

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