Tuesday, June 30, 2009

CodeRush for free, not for Delphi Prism

As blogged before you know that I think DevExpress CodeRush totally rocks!
Did you know that you can get a lot of this functionality for free?

Mark Miller has got a very nice list of features that are available in CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008. All for free!
In the full product you will get even more, check out the differences in this article: Moving up from CodeRus Xpress to CodeRush

Delphi Prism
The downside of all this good stuff is that Delphi Prism is not supported. The fact that the original CodeRush was a pure Delphi IDE product, I can not believe that it will not be supported in the future.

Monday, June 29, 2009

The future of Delphi

I haven't had much time lately to follow everything on the Delphi side of the fence, but there is a lot going on.
Stefaan Lesage has a nice write up on this future, The future of Delphi looks brighter than ever before.

A very nice read, sums up everything that is cooking in the labs, including the roadmap.

Use an image as your UIBarButtonItem

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