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Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS 2006

Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS 2006. Oregon Delphi User Group November 2006. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006. #1 - QUALITY! Some can argue… Compare with D2005! Stable and Fast.

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Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS 2006

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  1. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS 2006 Oregon Delphi User Group November 2006

  2. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #1 - QUALITY! • Some can argue… • Compare with D2005! • Stable and Fast ODUG

  3. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #2 - ECO in Pro Version • But just the basics (see feature matrix) • ECO III is really easy: 9-year old demonstrates • New: State Machines! ODUG

  4. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #3 – Live Templates • Let Nick show you: Video ODUG

  5. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #4 – VCL Designer Guidelines • Waaaaay Cool! • But only for Win32  • No more pixel counting • Much faster form building • More consistency in the user interface ODUG

  6. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #5 – Four Languages, Four Personalities • OK, nothing much new here… • Delphi for Win32 • Delphi for .NET • C++ Builder • C# • Pre-built personalities nice ODUG

  7. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #6 – New VCL Features • Margins • Padding • Alignment ODUG

  8. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #7 – New VCL Components • TGridPanel • TFlowPanel • TCategoryButtons ODUG

  9. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #8 – Refactorings • Greatly enhanced from D2005 • Nick’s tutorial ODUG

  10. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #9 – History Tab • New in D2005 • Braver programming! • Better than undo • Between version check-ins ODUG

  11. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #10 – Bundled Products • Castalia • CodeHealer • BeyondCompare • BuilderBooster (C++) ODUG

  12. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #11 – Two-Way Modeling • Together UML Modeling • Changed code updates diagram! ODUG

  13. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #12 – Cool New Tool Palette • Some like it, some don’t • Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+P? • Lotsa options ODUG

  14. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #13 – Expandable Debugger Hints • Hierarchical view of inspected items • Expand/collapse view—both in debug windows and in pop-up hints ODUG

  15. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 • #14 – It’s the little things that count… • Structure Pane • Pinnable and dockable windows • Built-in HTML editor • Data Explorer window • SDI (Single Document Interface) with MDI option • David’s Favorite: Error Insight! ODUG

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