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

Most recently, a new release of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (2010) was released. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the new features of this environment compared to version 2010.

Delphi and C ++ Builder

Development of multi-tier applications using DataSnap

• New wizards for creating server applications and client modules
• Wizards for creating DataSnap server applications using C ++ Builder
• Encryption and Compression Streams
• Authentication role support

Additional utilities

• AQTime Standard Profiling Utility Kit
• CodeSite Express Logging and Advanced Debugging Kit
• A set of Software IP Works components for developing Internet applications and working with IP family protocols
• Beyond Compare Text Compare Utility for Comparing and Finding Differences in Files

Cloud computing

• New components for working with basic Windows Azure storage systems (blobs, queues, and tables are supported)
• Ability to quickly deploy development software on Amazon EC2 servers

Integrating Subversion Support in the IDE

• Subversion has been integrated into the Project Manager and the Source Code Change History Manager (History Manager)
• The basic operations with the repository are supported: import, updating from the server, committing and viewing logs
• Wizard to view differences and merge results
• The source code for working with Subversion tools through the Open Tools API is available as an open source project.

Productivity and usability tools

• Modeler code generation improved to get better code.
• Added the ability to generate sequence diagrams from methods in the Delphi application
• Added code formatting settings for Ctrl-D
• Enhanced text search and IDE Insight menus for quick access to environment features
• Added some hotkeys for moving between modified lines of code

Automation of the assembly process

• FinalBuilder automatic build management package added
• Added Formatter.exe to automatically format source codes
• Added AuditsCLI.exe to automatically run source code audits and calculate metrics
• Added GenDocsCLI.exe for automatic documentation generation

Improvements to the language, compiler and libraries

• Updated VCL, RTL and STL libraries
• Added support for working with regular expressions
• Extended functionality of the TStrings and TDateTime classes
• Extended RTTI support 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
• Compiler performance increased

ToolCloud Integration

• Added ability to work with Embarcadero ToolCloud

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

New in Delphi Prism XE

• Subversion Support
• Cross-platform development on Windows and Mac OS X using MonoDevelop
• Support for .NET 4.0 and SilverLight
• IDE is now based on Visual Studio 2010 Shell with all that it implies.
• Support for parallel programming, functional programming (new if, case and for), BigInteger constants. Added new syntax for defining extension methods
• Ability to import, copy and paste C # code with automatic conversion to 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 PHP sites right from the environment. Built-in libraries allow you to create applications for FaceBook with the ability to expand functionality through third-party components. Developing data access applications has never been easier.