Borland Delphi 2005 Professional - upgrade package ( HDB0005WWCS180 )

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000692NEQ
• Item model number: HDB0005WWCS180
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 22, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,562 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Product Description
Borland Delphi 2005 Professional Upgrade . Borland Delphi 2005 Professional is the ultimate and complete development solution for Windows. With Delphi, C#, Microsoft .NET Framework and Win32 support for GUI, Web, and database in one hyperproductive RAD environment, Windows development is easier, better, and faster. Delphi 2005 combines the familiar power of Delphi with productivity-boosting features just for developers, more languages and SDKs, and streamlined application lifecycle integration - putting the #34fast and fun#34 back into Windows development. New technologies for Microsoft .NET and Win32 - including refactoring, unit testing, dbGo for ADO/ADO.NET database development, and more - equip developers with all the tools they need to take Windows development to the next level.

Features

Category - Programming tool
Subcategory - Programming - Delphi
License Type - Complete package
License Qty - 1 user
License Pricing - Standard Platform - Windows
Distribution Media - CD-ROM
Package Type - Retail
OS Required - Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional , Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the hype!!!!, May 9, 2005

By	Howes (Hampshire UK) - See all my reviews

I was excited at the prospect of getting this product. I own Delphi5, and the idea of an upgrade that I could use to support my existing code as well as upgrade to .net in future or even (horror of horrors leave Delphi and Switch to C#) seemed great, talk about covering all your bases. The new features sounded sensible too. Synch editing (where changing a single identifier in a selection changes all the others) seemed a great idea.

Having always stuck with Borland in the past I was expecting something professional and polished, sadly I think Borland have lost the plot.

D2005 tries to be a Jack of all Trades and ends up being a master of none.

The user interface is cluttered (it took me about ten minutes just to hide all the options for .net, interweb etc when i was trying to build a win23 application. I think it would have made far more sense to present the user with a wizard at startup that would have determined which components appear in the IDE.

Performance is awfull, I have a fast(ish) machine, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 1 GB Ram, and the IDE would frequently freeze for three or four seconds at a time whilst I was navigating through my code. The minimum specs of a PII/450 are a joke as are the recommended specs of a PIII/850. Even after turning off code completion and virtually all the other editor options it was still barely usable (in fact if only the options that were available in Delphi 5 are switched on, peformance is still terible).

And reliability! I had to do a double take on this, I was sure I must have installed something incorrectly or done something else wrong. It is unbelievably bad. I got constant Access Violations (I think Borland knew full well how unreliable it was going to be because 'helpfull' dialogs pop up explaining that a AV has occurred and asking you if you still want to save your work! don't remember that in previous versions!) and after these AV's any other action would result in further AV's. I think a lot of the reliability is down to memory leaks in the IDE. It would work OK for the first few minutes and then gradualy get worse and worse the more time I spent using it. I was so shocked at the reliability that I went onto Borlands Quality Central Site and, sigh, it wasn't an instalation issue, lots of people were having the same problems. I uninstalled the application, then reinstalled clean and added the patches available from the QC site but it made little if any difference. Eventually I gave up and reinstalled Delphi5, ah bliss, fast IDE, fast builds (its actually a lot faster to constantly rebuild to check your code for errors in Delphi5 then it is to use highlighting in Delphi 2005) no AV's!

Overall then: nice idea if they can get the bugs out and maybe sort out the screen clutter a bit, but nowhere near stable enough at present for real world development.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best database development system for xbase user , May 24, 2005

By	O. yips chou "the turtle student" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am extremely impressed and satified by the capability, simplicity, power, magic and genius of the Borland Delphi products. I have used Visual dBASE, Visual Foxpro, Visual Basic, Access and Visual Objects, and none of these products have the simplicity and power of this amazing product from Borland.

Moreover, this product dramatically reduced my programming time. Maintenance of a Delphi program is also a snap. For example, I wrote a DOS business invoicing and inventory program using Clipper in 3 weeks time, but the same program rewritten using Delphi was accomplished in only 3 hours. This was made possible because of the power of the Delphi database components and user interface components. The finished product is neat and incredibly fast. In the Clipper old days, I spent most of my time writing codes, now I have much more time to share with my family and friends, and enjoying other things life has to offer, thanks to Delphi.

This is the programming environment I always dreamed of. The beauty and elegance of Delphi surpasses anything I have seen and tried.

Naturally, there is no free lunch for anything in life, there is a steep learning curve. Delphi is the Clipper for the 2000's and more!