Embarcadero® RAD Studio 2010

Embarcadero® RAD Studio 2010 is the industry’s most powerful rapid application development suite for visually building GUI-intensive, data-driven end-user applications for both native Windows® and .NET. RAD Studio includes Delphi®, C++Builder® and Delphi Prism™, enabling you to deliver applications up to 5x faster across multiple Windows and database platforms.

RAD Studio 2010 is available in Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. For details on the differences between the editions, see the Product Editions page and Feature Matrix.

Use RAD Studio 2010 for rapid development of:

* High performance native and .NET applications for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000
* Heterogeneous desktop, client/server, and multi-tier database apps and services that connect with all you data across multiple sources and tiers
* Touch based GUI, tablet, touchpad, and kiosk applications with seamless touch and gesturing support on any Windows OS

WHAT IS NEW IN RAD STUDIO 2010
Radically reduce development time
Every feature in the RAD Studio development environment is designed to speed coding
so you can complete your projects faster. RAD Studio 2010 will make you even more
productive and save you time with enhancements throughout the IDE:
• IDE Insight for easy access to all IDE features, settings and components without
searching through menus and dialogs
• Code Formatter to enable consistent coding styles with less work
• C++ Class Explorer for quick navigation and management of classes in your
project
• Improved Search and File Reopen to quickly find the information you need


Debugger data visualizers make debugging easier by customizing the display
of data types in the debugger
• Debugger thread control for freezing, thawing and isolating threads as well as
setting breakpoints for selected threads so you can track down problems
• New Debugger Options: "Scroll new events into view" and "Ignore non-user
breakpoints"
• New introductory code audits and metrics in Delphi Professional for better
understanding code and project health; full set of audits and metrics in
Enterprise and Architect
Free your customers from keyboards
Rapidly build touch based GUI, tablet, touchpad, and kiosk applications or easily
upgrade existing applications UIs with little or no additional coding.
• Pluggable gesture engine architecture
• Works on all supported versions of Windows (2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7)
• Use touch-enabled hardware or work with what you have (e.g. mouse)
• Integrated support for touch and multi-touch interfaces in the base VCL
• 30+ standard gestures for panning, zooming, rotating and more
• Create your own with the Custom Gesture Editor
• Touch Keyboard - a complete virtual keyboard for enhanced non-keyboard
interface interactions that supports multiple locales and languages
Make the connection with data and apps
With RAD Studio 2010 you’ll make the connection with more data, more Web Services,
and more application architectures
• New Firebird 2.1 and 1.5 support in dbExpress
• Updated drivers for InterBase 2009, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g and
MySQL 5.1
• Take advantage of Web Services functionality from Amazon and others with new
SOAP 1.2 client support
• HTTP communication and in-process connectivity for DataSnap multi-tier
applications
• New DataSnap wizards from the Object Gallery to make server creation even
easier
• DataSnap callbacks enable servers to communicate with clients
• Filtering allows for complete control over the data stream between clients and
DataSnap servers
• Participate in popular application architectures with REST and JSON values
support in DataSnap
Reach more user desktops
Support more Windows desktops without worrying about the specific Windows API
details of each version and support users worldwide with Unicode throughout the
development environment and improved language support.
• VCL controls are optimized to take advantage of the capabilities and theming of
XP, Vista and Windows 7
• Fully Unicode enabled throughout to handle worldwide data and users
• Deliver touch and mouse gesturing enabled apps on Windows XP and Vista and
take advantage of the new touch support in Windows 7
• Expanded Open Tools API for building plug-ins to the Delphi IDE
• English, German, French and Japanese translations available for IDE menus and
dialogs, compiled units, resources, and source code
• Easy switching between languages for IDE menus and dialogs and more
Code and compile like never before
Delphi 2010 includes new RTTI support and new compiler and language enhancements
• RTTI support for exposure of Methods, Fields, and Properties to support
dynamic invocations and other meta-programming approaches
• Object-oriented file and directory IO classes
• Custom attribute support for most code elements - types, fields, properties,
methods and parameters
• Enhanced TStringBuilder for easier and faster string concatenation and
manipulation
• Enhanced generics with full RTL list and collection support
• Enhanced support for localized resources
• Background compilation so you can continue working while you compile
C++Builder 2010 further builds on previously introduced C++0x language features
with even more compiler and library enhancements:
• FastMM is now the standard heap manager for C++ runtime libraries
• Support for #pragma once
• -Zx option for generating XML representation of source code
• Added support for _FUNCTION_
• Support for deprecated attribute
• __declspec(dllimport) and __declspec(dllexport) for template classes
• Update Boost libraries 1.39
• Improved standard C++ heap manager
• Optimized string/memory handling functions
• Background compilation so you can continue working while you compile
More data modeling power in RAD Studio 2010 Architect
RAD Studio 2010 Architect edition includes new ER/Studio 8.0 Developer Edition to help
users discover, document, and re-use data assets and gives you the power to easily
reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize databases. New ER/Studio features include:
• Visual Data Lineage - Visually analyze and document how data flows through
your organization without needing to inspect code
• Attribute-level Submodeling - Choose which attributes/columns to include in the
entities/tables in the submodel and also describe submodels on the new
Definition tab, then create queries to search on the definitions
• Object-level Compare Flags - Indicate intentional discrepancies when comparing
models that the Compare Wizard should ignore
• Produce reports in HTML format
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 support
These new features will be covered more fully below.
New for .NET development (Delphi Prism)
Go further with the Delphi Prism language

The Delphi Prism language is a great way for Delphi developers and .NET developers to
write .NET applications. Delphi developers can take advantage of familiar syntax and
.NET developers will find exciting language features not available in other .NET
programming languages. The Delphi Prism language has been updated with the
following new features:

• Enhanced compatibility with the Delphi language
• Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
• Support for Dynamic Typing (under .NET 4.0)
Major Compiler Features
• RemObjects Cirrus: AOP for Oxygene
• Standard Aspects Library for RemObjects Cirrus (shipping as Tech Preview)
• Unmanaged Exports
• Generic Type Variance
• Volatile fields
• CLSCompliantAttribute support and compiler warnings
• New LINQ Query Expressions operators Skip, While, Take and Take While

Minor Compiler Features
• Unquote expression support (mainly to support Cirrus)
• $DELPHICOMPATIBILITY compiler directive and project option
• Runtime range checking
• Range Enum Types (e.g. "type Ten = 1..10;")
• Read-only classes
• Support for negative low bounds in Array Types
Other New Features
• CodeDom enhancements to support OxygeneInterface, OxygenePartial and
OxygeneEmpty tags in UserData
• Pre/Post build events
• Debug options: Remote Machine
• Custom "Add Reference" pane for adding Mono assembly references
• New Monobjc Template and Monobjc libraries deployed with Delphi Prism
• Updated setup to install the latest Mono 2.4
• Added Internet Pack as an integrated part of setup
• Integrated F1 help based on an offline copy of the documentation wiki
• Added templates for ASP.NET Web projects
Make the connection with data and applications
With Delphi Prism 2010, developers can build .NET DataSnap client applications that
use new capabilities of DataSnap 2010, including support for communicating with the
server using the HTTP protocol. DataSnap features are available in Delphi Prism
Enterprise, Embarcadero RAD Studio Enterprise and Embarcadero RAD Studio
Architect.
Features vary by product edition. See the RAD Studio 2010 Feature Matrix for a full list of
features by edition.
A WORD ON DELPHI PRISM
The Delphi Prism product is not covered in this reviewers guide but will be covered in a
separate guide as it is focused 100% on .NET. The underlying IDE is based on

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Shell (VSS) program that is similar to the Eclipse IDE framework.
Since Delphi Prism uses a different interface and approach, it is believed that a separate
document would be better for that part of RAD Studio. In the future it may be added to
the end of the document. This document will focus on both Delphi and C++Builder
products as they are both built on the same internal IDE framework and are focused on
native applications.

PREREQUISITES
To install RAD Studio 2010, the following prerequisites must be installed:
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later
• Microsoft Direct Access Objects 2.8
• Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0 SP1 or later
• Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) v4.0 SP2 or later
• Microsoft Visual J# .NET v2.0 Redistributable
If you don’t already have the prerequisites installed on your system, the Delphi installer
will install them for you.
The .NET Framework is required by the IDE, but note that native applications built with
Delphi has no dependencies at all on the .NET Framework.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
The following system requirements are recommended for running RAD Studio 2010:
• Intel Pentium or compatible, 1.4Ghz minimum (2Ghz+ recommended)
• 1GB RAM (2GB+ Recommended)
• 3GB free hard disk space for Delphi
• 750MB free hard disk space for prerequisites
• DVD-ROM Drive
• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
• Mouse or other pointing device
The following Windows platforms are supported for installing RAD Studio 2010:
• Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional (SP3 or higher)
• Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 (requires Administrator rights)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP1)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Windows 7 (requires Administrator rights)
Note: The English version of RAD Studio 2010 updates Internet Explorer versions earlier
than 6.0 with the English version of Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1. If you are running a
localized operating system, run Windows Update to ensure that you get the proper
localized version of Internet Explorer.


INTERNATIONALIZATIONS:
The RAD Studio 2010 product is fully localized for the following languages.
• English
• French
• German
• Japanese
EDITIONS
RAD Studio 2010 has three different editions to cater to different market segments –
Professional, Enterprise, and Architect.
Professional
The Professional edition of RAD Studio 2010 is designed for developers who need a
general purpose, RAD development tool with limited or local-only database access. The
Professional edition includes the full-featured IDE, both the Delphi and C++ languages,
and the complete VCL, including the VCL source code and integrated Unit Testing. It
includes local-only database access to InterBase, MySQL and Blackfish SQL.
The Professional edition also contains a limited version of VCL for the Web --
applications are limited to five connections and stand-alone servers. The Professional
edition also includes limited functionality that supports Unified Modeling Language
(UML) for Reverse engineering of class diagrams, and static code analysis tools for
software metrics and audits.
The Professional edition is attractive to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs),
professional developers without a need for remote database access, and any developer
wanting to develop general Windows applications and utilities.
Enterprise
The Enterprise edition of RAD Studio 2010 is designed for developers who need access
to enterprise level data stored in RDBMSs and includes all features from the Professional
edition. The Enterprise edition provides native local and remote access to nine different
database engines:
• Firebird 2.1 and 1.5 support
• InterBase 7.5.1, 2007 and 2009
• Blackfish SQL for .NET and Java
• Oracle 10g and 11g
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008
• DB2 UDB 8.X
• MySQL 4.0.x and 5.1.x
• Informix 9x
• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5
• Sybase SQL Anywhere 9




In addition, the Enterprise edition includes a full version of VCL for the Web, with
unlimited access to application-mode web applications for stand-alone, ISAPI- and
Apache-based applications.
The Enterprise edition adds high level modeling support through the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) for both language neutral models and code-based models. Enhanced
with LiveSource™ the two-way model to code / code to model feature for Delphi
developers gives extended support for keeping models and code synchronized.
Documentation can be automatically generated providing an easy way to explore and
review projects, and supporting communication beyond the core team of developers.
DataSnap technology continues to evolve as demands for distributed computing
increase. The technology behind DataSnap has moved beyond the approach of
remoting data through Microsoft’s COM/DCOM to a more open communications
approach based on TCP/IP. This evolution has allowed the DataSnap technology to
expand its capabilities to include a complete middleware technology. One of the key
features behind the technology is that it is fast; fast to build, fast to deploy, and fast to
execute in production.
The Enterprise edition is attractive to corporate developers who need access to
corporate data, ISVs who write applications that require heterogeneous database
support, as well as consultants and VAR that support Enterprise level developers.
Architect
The Architect edition of RAD Studio 2010 inclu