Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

New Features

Touch Support

• Gestures – platform independent framework that can use a mouse, pen or touch and supports over 30 different gestures, for example up, down, left, right and even custom gestures. Gesture configuration is generally codeless and only requires code on the OnGesture event.
• InteractiveGestures – continuously fire the OnGesture event, Interactive Gestures are useful for implementing zooming, panning and rotation (Windows 7 support only)
• Multi-touch Support – Support for multi-touch on Windows 7 with compatible multi-touch hardware
• Touch based keyboard – embed a VCL keyboard control that is touch sensitive and displayed on screen – supports multiple locales and languages and multi-touch on Windows 7
• Touch support is compatible on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7

IDE Enhancements

• IDE Insight – Access all settings, components, code templates, gallery and repository items without searching through menus – find what you want just by typing its name and the filter will return the relevant results
• Class Explorer – navigate and manage the classes within your projects
• Code Formatter – format your code based on a number of different, customisable rules
• New debugger features – customise the display of data types in the debugger, freeze, thaw, isolate and set breakpoints on individual threads and optionally scroll new debugger events into view and ignore non-user breakpoints

New Data Support

• Support for Firebird 2.1 and 1.5 using dbExpress
• Updated dbExpress drivers for InterBase 2009, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g and MySQL 5.1
• SOAP 1.2 client support
• New DataSnap features include support for REST and JSON, new wizards to help create DataSnap servers, filter data streams between clients and servers and support for HTTP communication and in-process connectivity.

Improved Compatibility

• Support for new Windows 7 features such as the new API’s and Direct2D
• Builds on the Unicode features within C++Builder/Delphi 2009
• Touch support available in Windows XP and Vista, with advanced support in Windows 7
• English, German, French and Japanese IDE, dialogs and compiled units translations which can easily be switched between within the IDE
• Improved OpenTools API for developing plug-ins for the C++Builder/Delphi IDE

New language functionality in C++Builder

• FastMM is the standard heap manager for C++ runtime libraries
• Support for #pragma once
• Option to generate an XML representation of the source code
• Support for _FUNCTION_
• Support for [[deprecated]] attribute
• __declspec(dllimport) and __declspec(dllexport) for template classes
• Boost libraries 1.39 supported
• Improved string and memory functions
• New background compilation method – carry on working as you compile

New language functionality in Delphi

• RTTI Support (Runtime Type Information) – Object reflection framework - write code to interact with other objects without knowing their type at design time
• Custom attribute support for types, fields, properties, methods and parameters
• New object orientated file and directory classes – IOUtils.pas is a new unit which supports finding and moving files and directories, encrypting files and more
• Enhanced TStringBuilder makes it easier and faster to modify and combine strings
• Enhanced generics – full RTL list and collection support
• Enhanced support for localised resources
• New background compilation method – carry on working as you compile

Please note: not all new features are available in all editions of Delphi/C++Builder. Please see the 'RAD Studio 2010 Feature Matrix' for an overview of what is included in each edition.

Licensing

What is ELS and FLEX?
ELS and FLEX licences are used when you wish to manage your licences over a network. Embarcadero License Server (ELS) or FLEXnet are license servers installed at a central location and maintain a list of named users/concurrent users who can use the product.
What is Support and Maintenance for Delphi?
Support and Maintenance can be purchased at the time you purchase your product or upgrade. The support and maintenance agreement gives you a year of upgrades (including major and minor upgrades) and a specified number of support incidents.
What are the limitations of the Academic products?
The Academic edition can be used only for learning in an academic or classroom environment. Educational institutions cannot use the academic version to produce software for use within their institution.
How is Blackfish SQL licensed in Delphi?
Blackfish RAD Studio Editions are specially licensed versions of Blackfish SQL included with CodeGear RAD Studio, Delphi Prism, Delphi and C++Builder.
Architect and Enterprise editions of the IDEs include unlimited Blackfish SQL database desktop or server deployment on systems with up to 5 users / 20 connections, and support for databases up to 2GB.
Professional editions of the IDEs include unlimited Blackfish SQL desktop database deployment on systems with 1 local user / 4 connections, and support for databases up to 512 MB.

Editions

RAD Studio 2010 is available in 3 separate editions:

RAD Studio Professional

RAD Studio Professional can create native Windows executables and touch screen applications using C++Builder, Delphi and Delphi Prism. RAD Studio Professional supports:

• Local database support for Interbase, MySQL and Blackfish SQL (Blackfish SQL deployment on systems with 1 user and a 512MB database size limit) in both Delphi and C++Builder
• Database connectivity for Delphi Prism available via ADO.NET
• Supports VCL for the Web with a limit of 5 connections
• Visually represent code with UML code visualisation
• Basic set of code audits to understand code and project health

RAD Studio Enterprise

RAD Studio Enterprise supports multiple databases and has support for building multi-tier applications. RAD Studio Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus:

• Database server support for Interbase, Blackfish SQL (Blackfish SQL deployment on systems with 5 users and a 2GB database size limit), Firebird, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix and Sybase
• Remote server connectivity to Interbase and Blackfish SQL when building .NET applications
• DataSnap for multi-tier application development
• VCL for the Web with no connection limit
• Complete UML support – 2 way modelling capabilities with synchronisation between code and models, multiple diagram types, documentation generation and design patterns
• Comprehensive set of code metrics and audits to understand code and project health

RAD Studio Architect

The most advanced edition of RAD Studio, RAD Studio Architect is designed for creating data-intensive applications for large databases. RAD Studio 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.

Requirements for developing native applications

• Windows 2000 Professional/Server (SP4), Server 2003 (SP1)/2008, XP Home/Professional (SP2/SP3), Vista (SP1 – with admin rights), Windows 7
• Intel Pentium or compatible processor, 1.4GHz minimum, 2GHz recommended
• 1GB RAM (2GB+ recommended)
• 3 GB free hard disk space for Delphi
• 750 MB free hard disk space for prerequisites
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1024x768 or higher-resolution monitor

Requirements for developing .NET applications

• Minimum - 1.6 GHz CPU, 384 MB RAM, 1024x768 display, 5400 RPM hard disk
• Recommended - 2.2 GHz or higher CPU, 1024 MB or more RAM, 1280x1024 display, 7200 RPM or higher hard disk
• On Windows Vista - 2.4 GHz CPU, 768 MB RAM
• Storage Requirements - 1 GB of available space required on system drive / 2 GB of available space required on installation drive (includes space for .NET Framework and SDK)