Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2

New Features

New in RAD Studio XE2

Deploy to Windows, Mac OS X and iOS

• Create applications for Windows, Mac and iOS
• Develop and debug native 64-bit Windows applications, 32-bit OS X applications and iOS apps

Stunning HD applications with FireMonkey™

• Rich GPU-based HD scalable vector UIs
• Maximum resolution on any device
• GPU powered 3D graphics and effects

Easily control UI styling

• Stylised VCL and FireMonkey UIs without coding
• Customise included styles or create your own

No-code hardware effects

• Over 50 built-in GPU powered effects in FireMonkey
• Apply multiple simultaneous effects
• Non-destructive

Put your data and logic in the cloud

• Run your business logic and data access in your own private cloud or Amazon EC2
• Works with Amazon and Azure cloud data

Visualise live data

• New LiveBindings let you connect any data source to any VCL or FireMonkey user interface or graphic element
• LiveBindings also include expressions, giving you incredible power and flexibility to build “dynamically' calculated and updated bindings

Mobile development

• Build native iOS applications with FireMonkey or with RadPHP
• DataSnap Connectors enable you to develop mobile client applications to access your Delphi DataSnap server (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7).

Benefits

Fast, native applications for Windows, Mac, Web and Mobile

With RAD Studio XE2, you can write an application once in Delphi and compile it for Windows and Mac and build applications for iOS. C++Builder applications can be compiled for Windows and Mac and with RadPHP you can easily build applications for the Web. RAD Studio XE2 applications are compiled into simple and efficient executables that are easy to distribute and deploy.

Rapid Application Development

Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools allow for fast visual prototyping. You get your customer’s feedback on actual GUI prototypes and in real time before moving on to full production. With RAD Studio XE2 you also get thousands of built-in extendable components, which increase reusability and speed up your development process.

Create visually stunning applications

RAD Studio XE2’s included application platforms, VCL and FireMonkey, help developers rapidly build business applications with higher quality user interfaces and rich data and services connectivity. The VCL framework is designed to build traditional Win32/Win64 form based GUI applications and largely leverages the Windows operating system and APIs such as GDI to draw UIs. FireMonkey is a rich business application platform that enables developers to build visually spectacular HD and 3D business applications with incredibly fast performance on Windows, Mac and iOS.

Build highly-connected applications

When you use RAD Studio, your applications get built-in high-speed connectivity to all popular databases. RAD Studio’s RAD Cloud data and application services connect to all popular client platforms, frameworks, languages, and devices today. Connect iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 mobile applications to your DataSnap applications and database services.

Visualise live data

RAD Studio’s new LiveBindings let you connect any data source to any VCL or FireMonkey user interface or graphic element. LiveBindings give you the power and creative freedom to present data to users in more intuitive and interactive ways. LiveBindings also include expressions, giving you incredible power and flexibility to build “dynamically' calculated and updated bindings.

Editions

RAD Studio XE2 is available in 4 separate editions:

RAD Studio Professional

RAD Studio XE2 Professional is designed for software developers and teams building PC, Mac, kiosk and mobile applications with or without embedded and local database persistence.

• Embarcadero Delphi XE2 including Delphi native compiler for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Delphi native compiler for Mac OS X
• Embarcadero C++Builder XE2 including Embarcadero RAD C++ Compiler (bcc32) 6.40 for Windows and Embarcadero RAD C++ Compiler (bcc32) 6.40 for Mac OS X
• Embarcadero Prism for .NET development
• RadPHP XE2 for PHP web application development and mobile device application development
• High productivity integrated visual development environment (IDE) with UI designers, code editor, Code Insight, build and debugging tools
• Advanced IDE features including refactoring, unit testing, remote debugging
• Bundled tools for reporting, logging, source control, web, installs
• FireMonkey rich application platform for Windows/Mac
• Local connectivity to InterBase via dbExpress and InterBase Express
• Local database connectivity to MySQL with dbExpress
• Access to some earlier version licenses (Delphi 7, 2007-XE, C++Builder 6, 2007-XE)
• And more

RAD Studio Enterprise

RAD Studio XE2 Enterprise is designed for software developers and teams building client/server, multi-tier, cloud, and Web applications. RAD Studio Enterprise offers seamless connectivity with a variety of database servers and enterprise data sources, as well as DataSnap multi-tier technology. RAD Studio XE2 Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus:

• Database drivers with remote server connectivity for leading databases and ODBC
• DataSnap middleware for building multi-tier applications and mobile connectors
• Cloud computing with Amazon and Microsoft Windows Azure
• And more

RAD Studio Ultimate

RAD Studio XE2 Ultimate includes all the functionality of RAD Studio Enterprise and adds:

• DB PowerStudio Developer Edition - for fast SQL database development, database change management, SQL profiling and SQL tuning.

RAD Studio Architect

The most advanced edition of RAD Studio XE, RAD Studio XE Architect is designed for creating data-intensive applications for large databases. RAD Studio XE Architect includes everything in the Professional and Enterprise editions, plus:

• ER/Studio 8.0 Developer Edition – helps to reverse engineer, understand and thus optimise databases. Generate database code from models designed in ER/Studio and create models from information extracted from databases and script files.

System Req.

RAD Studio XE2 System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit & requires admin rights), Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional (32-bit and 64-bit) SP2 or SP3, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Intel Pentium or compatible, 1.6 GHz minimum (2GHz+ recommended)
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB+ recommended)
• Between 3 – 9 GB free hard disk space depending on edition and configuration
• Basic GPU - Any vendor DirectX 9.0 class or better (Pixel Shader Level 2)
• 1024x768 or higher-resolution monitor
• Mouse or other pointing device.

For developing 64-bit Windows applications

• PC running a 64-bit version of Windows or a 32-bit development PC connected with a PC running a 64-bit version of Windows

For developing OS X applications

PC running Windows connected with an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or OS X 10.7 (Lion) over a local area network using a SSH, VNC or Windows file sharing solution

For developing iOS applications

• iOS SDK 4.2 or 4.3
• Xcode 3.2.5 or 3.2.6.