Diamondback information

Saturday, October 02, 2004 01:54 PM

As I mentioned in my BorCon posts, Borland is being very open about the technical aspects of Diamondback, the next version of Delphi. A lot of information is already available on BDN:

• Diamondback sneak peek
• Diamondback preview of Data Remoting
• Interview with Danny Thorpe about Diamondback
• Interview with Corbin Dunn about Diamondback

The R&D engineers are also blogging about Diamondback:

• Steve Trefethen blogs about CSS code completion, ASP.NET template editing, ASP.NET debugging in IIS, ASP.NET deployment, and ActionBands.
• Corbin Dunn has posted his CodeDOM article from BorCon.
• Chris Bensen mentions Virtual Library Interfaces, a new way of using Win32 DLLs from managed code.

If you attended BorCon and got your Diamondback preview CD, you can now talk about it, write about it, and show it. I showed a quick demonstration of Diamondback to one of my clients (currently using Delphi 8), and they were amazed. I showed a glimpse of about 10% of what's new, and they told me that's more than enough for a new major version. They could hardly believe there was more.