Yesterday, I met now Shenzhen's old friend "too terrible", he told me that this year's Borcon will have official news of Delphi 9, and it is sent to me: "Come to Borcon 2004 (US) to see the next Delphi release! - by John Kaster.
But there is still 23 days from Borcon 2004, I have checked it with Google. I didn't find more content than this Dongdong on BDN. It seems that everything will wait until Borcon's opening.
However, from this article, we can also see some models. I am most concerned about the contents of Technical Sessions:
The first is ECO. This O / R mapping from bold from bold has been hoped by everyone, but unfortunately, it has not been very smooth. It was originally released in the C # Builder Architect version, but because it has not yet fully reached the height of bold, then C # Builder is not good, let everyone disappoint it. Then I was released again with Delphi 8 Architect last year, but I still fail to meet everyone's expectations. This time, if there is no breakthrough, it is estimated that ObjectSpace, etc. (the legend will be released with .NET 2.0), it is worrying. However, from this situation, it joins the support for ASP.NET, and does not know what except in other aspects. I am most concerned about its stability and the degree of combination with together.
Secondly, Ide, add support to ASP.NET, I don't know what aspects have been added, can only wait for 23 days to open its cover to know.
Another is one of my most attention: the compiler. This session is taught by Danny Thorpe, but now the only known thing is: it will generate .NET and WIN32 code, and continue to support native development, it is very encouraging, which means that Delphi 7 will not be the last A native development version of Delphi.
Introduction to Refactoring! ! A exciting feature, I don't know what is the extent of Borland, but it's too high, it should also reach the extent of Eclipse.
Effective Delphi for .Net and C # Unit Testing with NUnit: This is also an important feature, but NUNIT has developed for a while, and it should be more hopeful with ready-made Dongdong.
Then BDP, this DBEXPRESS-based .Net developed under database access technology relative to ADO.NET still has its own advantages, but after all, under .net, ADO.NET is the mainstream, the biggest advantage of BDP is supportive. Database is more than ADO.NET (third parties do not count).
CaliberRM is useless, don't say it.
The last two advanced Features are open Tools API and Codedom under .NET. Ota I haven't used it, but OTA is criticized to have a big change is too big, and each version is very different. I hope it will be better now.
Codedom is very expected, I don't know how Delphi 9 is doing, because I have recently been XML web development, this feature needs to me. Three years ago Delphi 6 already had XML Data Binding features, but there has been no introduce to a XML (Schema) to Delphi TWO-Way Tool. So every time I modify the XSD, I have to ran again. Wizard, I am very troublesome. Moreover, there is no XSD RAD in Delphi, can only manually write code or use external tools such as XML SPY. So I hope that Delphi 9 can add XSD's RAD and its Two-Way Tool with Delphi, even one-way Tool. : Pborcon is not possible to participate, wait for the event to hold a while to see how Borland will take out how Delphi 9.
