Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

New Features in RAD Studio 2010

The exciting new release of RAD Studio 2010 features new versions of Delphi®, C++Builder®, and Delphi Prism™. Embarcadero (formerly CodeGear) RAD Studio provides everything you need to build lightning-fast, compact, graphically-rich native Windows, .NET, Web, and database applications.

RAD Studio 2010 features major enhancements to the IDE, the Visual Component (VCL) framework, and underlying compilers and tools, making it easier than ever to build visual apps that can operate across all your data sources and tiers. Key new features in RAD Studio 2010 include:

• NEW! Cutting-edge support for touch- and gesture-enabling your apps on any Windows OS, including Windows 7
• NEW! Support for the latest databases with the enhanced DataSnap™ framework and dbExpress™ data access drivers, now with support for the
Firebird database!
• NEW! IDE Insight for instant access to any feature, setting, or component
• NEW! Delphi 7 Classic mode layout option with tabbed toolbar
• NEW! Over 120 new developer-focused IDE enhancements
• PLUS! Enhancements to hundreds of features introduced in v2009 including Unicode, generics, anonymous methods, and more

RAD Studio 2010 also adds exciting new capabilities for .NET and cross-platform Mono development, including Aspect Oriented Programming and support for dynamic types in .NET 4.0.

Everything you need for database driven Desktop, Client/Server, and Web application development

CodeGear^™ RAD Studio 2010 is a complete rapid application development solution with everything software developers and ISVs need for building native Windows^®, .NET, Web, and database applications. Native Windows development is provided by the acclaimed Delphi^® 2010 and C++Builder^® 2010 IDEs - the fastest way to build high performing native Windows applications. Delphi and C++Builder include visual designers and hundreds of components to easily create rich user interfaces and versatile database applications. RAD Studio’s Delphi Prism^™, powered by the RemObjects Oxygene^™ compiler, enables development for both .NET and Mono applications, and provides support for the latest .NET Framework technologies including ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF and LINQ.

RAD Studio 2010 Editions

RAD Studio Professional

Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 Professional is designed for software developers and teams building native Windows, .NET, and touch-screen applications with (or without) embedded and local database persistence. RAD Studio includes Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism, providing you with everything needed for fast native Windows and .NET development. Features include:

Local database connectivity to InterBase^®, Blackfish^™ SQL and MySQL in Delphi and C++Builder
Database connectivity available in Visual Studio via ADO.NET including local database connectivity to InterBase and Blackfish in Delphi Prism
Blackfish SQL deployment on systems with 1 user, 512MB database size
VCL for the Web with limit of 5 connections
Introductory set of code audits and metrics to understand coding style and project health
UML code visualisation, providing a visual representation of source code for easier understanding

RAD Studio Enterprise

Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 Enterprise is a designed for software developers and teams building client/server, multi-tier, and Web applications for native Windows and .NET. RAD Studio Enterprise offers seamless connectivity with a variety of database servers and enterprise data sources, expanded UML modeling, and a comprehensive tool set for delivering quality applications. RAD Studio Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus the following for building client/server and multi-tier database and Web applications:

Database server connectivity to InterBase, Blackfish SQL, Firebird, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix and Sybase when building native Windows applications
Remote server connectivity to InterBase and Blackfish SQL when building .NET applications
DataSnap multi-tier application development and .NET DataSnap client development
Blackfish SQL deployment on systems with 5 users, 2GB database size
VCL for the Web with no connection limit
Complete set of 80+ code metrics and 200+ code audits
Full two-way UML modeling capabilities with multiple diagram types, synchronisation between code and models, documentation generation, and design patterns

RAD Studio Architect

Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 Architect is designed for application developers and teams building data-intensive client/server GUI and Web applications with enterprise database systems. RAD Studio Architect combines data-driven rapid application development for native Windows and .NET with rich visual data modeling to help developers understand, design, and get the most value out of enterprise databases and data structures. RAD Studio Architect includes everything in the Enterprise edition, plus powerful database modeling and design capabilities:

Reverse-engineer, analyse, and optimise databases
Automatically generate database code from models for forward engineering
Create logical and physical models based on information extracted from databases and script files
Work with highly readable and navigable diagrams
Advanced compare and merge with bidirectional comparisons and merges of model and database structures