Rad Studio 2011 XE: New in Delphi, C ++ Builder, RadPHP and Delphi Prism

A very recently released new release of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (2010). I suggest to get acquainted with the new features of this environment in comparison with the version 2010.

Delphi and C ++ Builder

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Develop multi-tier applications with DataSnap

• New wizards for creating server applications and client modules
• Wizards for building DataSnap server applications using C ++ Builder
• Encryption-Compressed Streams
• Support for roles in the authentication system

Additional utilities

• AQTime Standard Profiling Toolkit
• A set of utilities for logging and advanced debugging CodeSite Express
• A suite of Software IP Works components for developing Internet applications and working with IP family protocols
• A utility for comparing and finding differences in files Beyond Compare Text Compare

Cloud computing

• New components for working with basic Windows Azure storage systems (blobs, queues and tables are supported)
• The ability to quickly develop software being developed on Amazon EC2 servers

Integrating Subversion Support into the IDE

• Subversion has been integrated into the project manager (Project Manager) and the source code history manager (History Manager)
• Basic repository operations are supported: import, update from server, commit and view logs.
• Wizard to view the differences and results of the merger
• Source code for working with Subversion tools through the Open Tools API is available as an open source project.

Tools to increase productivity and convenience

• Code generation by the modeller is improved for getting better code.
• Added the ability to generate sequence diagrams from methods in a Delphi application
• Added code formatting settings by Ctrl-D
• Expanded text search and IDE Insight menus for quick access to environment features
• Added some hotkeys to move between changed lines of code.

Automate the build process

• Added FinalBuilder automatic build management pack
• Added Formatter.exe for automatic formatting of source codes.
• Added AuditsCLI.exe to automatically start source code auditing and metrics calculation
• Added GenDocsCLI.exe to automatically generate documentation

Language, compiler and library improvements

• Updated VCL, RTL and STL libraries
• Regular expressions support added
• Extended TStrings and TDateTime classes functionality.
• Extended support for RTTI in C ++ Builder, added new RValue links, movement semantics for std: string and some other VCL improvements for C ++
• Added support for internal tabs in the OpenTools API
• Improved compiler performance

ToolCloud integration

• Added ability to work with Embarcadero ToolCloud

When you buy RAD Studio XE, you now get a license for all previous versions of Delphi and RAD Studio as a gift!

New to Delphi Prism XE

• Subversion support
• Cross-platform development on Windows and Mac OS X using MonoDevelop
• .NET 4.0 and SilverLight support
• The IDE is now based on the Visual Studio 2010 Shell with all the consequences
• Support for parallel programming, functional programming (new if, case and for), BigInteger constants. Added new syntax for defining extension methods
• The ability to import, copy and paste C # code with automatic conversion into Delphi Prism code
• The ability to develop applications for the iPhone OS
• Ability to obfuscate code directly from the environment
• Raize CodeSite Logging System Integration

RadPHP

With the new RadPHP, you can develop and debug websites in PHP right from the environment. Built-in libraries allow you to create applications for FaceBook with the ability to expand functionality with third-party components. Developing data access applications has never been easier.