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Thread Delphi 2009 - did you upgrade?
Tue, Dec 23 2008 2:45 AMPermanent Link

UliBecker
Hi,

I am working with Delphi 2007 at the moment and would be interested in your experiences with Delphi 2009. Does an upgrade pay off except the
ability to handle unicode data (I don't need this for my applications)?

Thanks and regards
Uli Becker
Tue, Dec 23 2008 11:12 PMPermanent Link

Jon Lloyd Duerdoth
Hi Uli,

I'll ride along with you on this... would like to know
as well.  In my case, I have D2006.

I'm guessing that there may be lots of work converting existing
apps... but perhaps not. Realistically D2006 works well for me but I'm
interested in "future proofing"... basically keeping my applications
in step with current computer environments.

JonD

UliBecker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working with Delphi 2007 at the moment and would be interested in your experiences with Delphi 2009. Does an upgrade pay off except the
> ability to handle unicode data (I don't need this for my applications)?
>
> Thanks and regards
> Uli Becker
>
Thu, Dec 25 2008 10:04 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

Team Elevate Team Elevate

Uli


Before you decide on an upgrade don't forget as well as upgrading Delphi you'll have to upgrade (probably) all your components or at the very least do some significant testing, and it includes homebrew as well. Some may not even be available in D2009 flavour. In my case that would be

ElevateDB (I wouldn't port any DBISAM projects)
WPTools (means an upgrade from V5 to V6)
TMS
Synapse
HTMLViewer
Addict
FreeReport
SMImport
SMWord
EXCMLParser
HTMLParse
ElasticForm
HKStreams

plus a load of homebrew stuff. I'm sort of lucky in that I reduced the number of addons when I switched from D6 to D2006 as my main platform.

Roy Lambert
Thu, Dec 25 2008 10:44 AMPermanent Link

UliBecker
Roy,

<<
Before you decide on an upgrade don't forget as well as upgrading Delphi you'll have to upgrade (probably) all your components or at the very
least do some significant testing, and it includes homebrew as well. Some may not even be available in D2009 flavour. In my case that would be...
>>

True, I am using a couple of components like yours. Frown

Concerning DBISAM projects I still have to use my old Delphi5 since there is no compilation of DBISAM 3 for Delphi2007. That's kinda problem for
me.

Regards and Merry Christmas

Uli
Thu, Dec 25 2008 11:46 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

Team Elevate Team Elevate

UliBecker


In that case I'd be very tempted to upgrade from DBISAM 3 to either DBISAM 4 or ElevateDB before doing the move to D2009.

Doing a total rewrite of my recruitment app I got part way through then decided to switch to the TMS controls, hadn't finished that when I added ElevateDB in. The learning curve was more like falling off a steep cliff, breaking several bones and trying to climb back up.

Roy Lambert
Fri, Dec 26 2008 9:09 AMPermanent Link

Uli Becker
Roy,

> In that case I'd be very tempted to upgrade from DBISAM 3 to either DBISAM 4 or ElevateDB before doing the move to D2009.

I did move to ElevateDB and I am converting my applications to EDB step
by step.

Nevertheless there are some DBISAM3 apps that have to wait.

So I am using Delphi5 for my DBISAM applications and Delphi2007 for the
rest. But my question was if Delphi2009 has real benefits coming from
Delphi2007.

Regards Uli
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