RAD Studio 2010 Product Review Guide August 2009 Corporate Headquarters EMEA Headquarters Asia-Pacific Headquarters 100 California Street, 12th Floor York House L7. 313 La Trobe Street San Francisco, California 94111 18 York Road Melbourne VIC 3000 Maidenhead, Berkshire Australia SL6 1SF, United Kingdom RAD Studio 2010 Reviewer Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ - 1 - Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... - 3 - General Overview of RAD Studio 2010 ...................................................................................... - 3 - What is New in RAD Studio 2010 ............................................................................................... - 3 - A Word on Delphi Prism ............................................................................................................. - 6 - Prerequisites ................................................................................................................................ - 7 - Minimum System Requirements ................................................................................................. - 7 - Internationalizations .................................................................................................................... - 7 - Editions ......................................................................................................................................... - 8 - Professional .............................................................................................................................. - 8 - Enterprise .................................................................................................................................. - 8 - Architect .................................................................................................................................... - 9 - Installation .................................................................................................................................... - 9 - The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) ..................................................................... - 9 - General Notes .............................................................................................................................. - 9 - Speed is The Key – The New IDE Insight ..................................................................................... - 10 - Classic Approach to Development .......................................................................................... - 11 - Writing Code -The Code Editor ............................................................................................... - 11 - Visually Designing a User Interface - The Form Designer ...................................................... - 13 - Managing an Application’s Content - The Project Manager ................................................. - 14 - Looking Under the Hood - The Debugger .............................................................................. - 15 - Accessing Data – The Data Explorer ........................................................................................ - 17 - The Visual Component Library ................................................................................................. - 18 - Touch the Future .................................................................................................................... - 19 - New Database and Touch features found in Delphi and C++Builder 2010 (Example) .... - 19 - Gestures / Touch .................................................................................................................... - 21 - New Class Explorer feature for C++Builder ............................................................................ - 22 - New Multi-tier Database Architecture – DataSnap 2010 ........................................................ - 23 - Full UML Integration with Audits and Metrics ......................................................................... - 24 - New RTTI and RTL support ....................................................................................................... - 25 - Search Command Changes ...................................................................................................... - 26 - New Features Introduced in RAD Studio 2009 ............................................................................ - 26 - Database Design and Modeling .............................................................................................. - 26 - New Delphi Language Features ............................................................................................... - 27 - Generics .................................................................................................................................. - 27 - Anonymous Methods ............................................................................................................. - 28 - New VCL Features ..................................................................................................................... - 29 - Ribbon Controls ..................................................................................................................... - 29 - Additional New Components ............................................................................................... - 29 - Updates to Existing Components ......................................................................................... - 31 - New IDE Features ...................................................................................................................... - 32 - Resource Manager ................................................................................................................. - 32 - Build Configurations .............................................................................................................. - 33 - Class Explorer ......................................................................................................................... - 34 - Translation Tools .................................................................................................................... - 35 - Updated and Improved COM/ActiveX Support .................................................................. - 36 - Embarcadero Technologies - 1 - RAD Studio 2010 Reviewer Guide Features That Were New in Delphi 2007 ..................................................................................... - 37 - Blackfish™ SQL .......................................................................................................................... - 37 - Additional Blackfish SQL Resources ..................................................................................... - 37 - Vista Support .............................................................................................................................. - 37 - Glassing Effects ......................................................................................................................... - 38 - Vista Dialogs .............................................................................................................................. - 38 - AJAX and VCL for the Web ...................................................................................................... - 38 - dbExpress 4 ................................................................................................................................ - 39 - Additional Selected Features from RAD Studio 2009 ................................................................. - 40 - The Integrated Development Environment ............................................................................ - 40 - Code Editor ............................................................................................................................ - 40 - The Visual Design Experience .................................................................................................. - 43 - Form Designer ........................................................................................................................ - 43 - Project Manager ..................................................................................................................... - 45 - Build Configurations .............................................................................................................. - 46 - Debugger ............................................................................................................................... - 47 - Integrated Unit Testing .......................................................................................................... - 49 - Refactorings ............................................................................................................................ - 49 - The Object Pascal Language ................................................................................................ - 51 - The Visual Component Library .............................................................................................. - 51 - Database Access .................................................................................................................... - 52 - Web Development ................................................................................................................