Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS 2006 Oregon Delphi User Group November 2006

November, 2006ODUG 2 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #1 - QUALITY! – Some can argue… – Compare with D2005! – Stable and Fast

November, 2006ODUG 3 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #2 - ECO in Pro Version – But just the basics (see feature matrix)feature matrix – ECO III is really easy: 9-year old demonstrates9-year old demonstrates – New: State Machines!

November, 2006ODUG 4 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #3 – Live Templates – Let Nick show you: VideoVideo

November, 2006ODUG 5 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #4 – VCL Designer Guidelines – Waaaaay Cool! – But only for Win32  – No more pixel counting – Much faster form building – More consistency in the user interface

November, 2006ODUG 6 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #5 – Four Languages, Four Personalities – OK, nothing much new here… Delphi for Win32 Delphi for.NET C++ Builder C# – Pre-built personalities nice

November, 2006ODUG 7 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #6 – New VCL Features – Margins – Padding – Alignment

November, 2006ODUG 8 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #7 – New VCL Components – TGridPanel – TFlowPanel – TCategoryButtons

November, 2006ODUG 9 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #8 – Refactorings – Greatly enhanced from D2005 – Nick’s tutorial Nick’s tutorial

November, 2006ODUG 10 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #9 – History Tab – New in D2005 – Braver programming! – Better than undo – Between version check-ins

November, 2006ODUG 11 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #10 – Bundled Products – Castalia – CodeHealer – BeyondCompare – BuilderBooster (C++)

November, 2006ODUG 12 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #11 – Two-Way Modeling – Together UML Modeling – Changed code updates diagram!

November, 2006ODUG 13 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #12 – Cool New Tool Palette – Some like it, some don’t – Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+P? – Lotsa options

November, 2006ODUG 14 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #13 – Expandable Debugger Hints – Hierarchical view of inspected items – Expand/collapse view—both in debug windows and in pop-up hints

November, 2006ODUG 15 Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #14 – It’s the little things that count… – Structure Pane – Pinnable and dockable windows – Built-in HTML editor – Data Explorer window – SDI (Single Document Interface) with MDI option – David’s Favorite: Error Insight!