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Delphi's most popular use is the development of desktop and enterprise database applications, but as a general-purpose development tool it is capable of and used for most types of development projects. It was one of the first of what came to be known as RAD tools, for Rapid Application Development, when released in 1995 for 16-bit Windows. Delphi 2, released a year later, supported 32-bit Windows environments, and a C++ version, C++BuilderC++Builder is a popular RAD ( Rapid application development) environment produced by Borland for writing programs in the C++ programming language. It bears close resemblance to Delphi, and as a result many consider it to be a C++ version of Delphi. Most c, followed a few years after. In 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap a Linux version known as KylixKylix may mean: Kylix (drinking cup), a type of drinking cup used in ancient Greece Kylix programming tool. became available. With one new major release every year, in 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom support for Linux (through Kylix and the CLX component library) was added and in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U .NET became supported in Delphi.Net (Delphi 8).
Delphi's proponents claim that having the Delphi Language, IDEKDevelop, a free IDE for Linux/Unix An integrated development environment (IDE (also known as an integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment is computer software to help computer programers develop software. They normally consist of and component library ( VCL/ CLX) supplied by a single vendor allows for a more internally consistent, and recognizable package.
The chief architect behind Delphi, and its predecessor Turbo Pascal, was Anders Hejlsberg until he left for Microsoft in 1996 where he is the chief designer of C# and a key participant in the creation of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Full support for .NET was added in Delphi 8 (released Dec 2003). Delphi 8, which compiles Object Pascal code for the .NET framework, changed its IDE for the first time since its conception to a look and feel similar to Microsoft's Visual Studio for .NET.
Delphi 2005 (rebranded D9) provides both win32 and .NET codegeneration, and has as most notable new feature designtime live data in database manipulation, and a significantly improved IDE. Also ECO provides an object persistance system using spaces.
The main distinguishing features of Delphi and Kylix from other IDEs are the Delphi language, the VCL/CLX (Visual Component Library), strong emphasis on database connectivity, and large number of third party components.
Notable aspects of the Delphi language include:
The Delphi product is distributed as various suites: Personal, Professional, Enterprise (formerly Client/Server) and Architect.