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re: 1001 DevExpress Tales

Richard Morris (DevExpress) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:23 GMT

I'm a big fan of giving customers multiple ways to find information. Some just prefer to get their information from books, and some like to study from places where it would be inappropriate to go online, and for some just knowing there is a book out there when they need it lowers the BAF (Boss Acceptance Factor).

@Birger: Most things in the book are covered in help topics, but using completely different examples and text with the hope that one or the other approaches gets you up to speed as quickly as possible.

re: Delphi at PDC

Peter Edwards — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:38:11 GMT

You talk like delphi developers are almost exstinct.

Im selling 30K pakages developed in delphi ... but if it was not for DevEx I would be dead in the water.

You guy's make me lok good - but then I apply your code in a manner perhaps only a few people in the worold can match!

around 20 million lines of code in my aps - you guy's manage a good 60% of it !!!

Delphi Rocks but devex rocks & rocks !!!

Pete

re: 1001 DevExpress Tales

Birger Jansen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:03:17 GMT

Isn't everything in the book already covered in the help files and the community forums?

re: 1001 DevExpress Tales

Richard Morris (DevExpress) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:35:34 GMT

@MB Sorry it's only for our ASP.NET controls. You could only use them with a first class .NET language which would include Delphi Prism though all our examples in the book are naturally C# or VB. If this book is popular we'll consider developing more, although I'm afraid there isn't much demand in the market for Delphi books on any subject.

re: 1001 DevExpress Tales

mBaalbaki — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:46:09 GMT

this is a wonderful idea to have DevExpress components book, but I'm working with delphi and have no plans to change,

is it any good for me? can I use it as a reference of options and possibilities?

Thank you.

re: 1001 DevExpress Tales

Steve Sharkey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:12:12 GMT

Paul - you've lost some weight since the picture was taken for the book, was it that stressful?

re: Grids - Center of the data universe?

Mohammed Nasman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:12:30 GMT

Richard, I'm totally agree with you, your grid is the best on the market, but I'm at the same boat with Bahry, because we need RTL support.

I don't know if it's too hard for you to add the RTL ?, because I know one developer who did the modification by himself within two days, but he needs to do it again for each updated version, which isn't feasible at all.

re: Borlands latest product is pure genius!

Richard Morris (DevExpress) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:49:03 GMT

Delphi 8 was a .NET only product, totally different IDE in a managed environment which meant the entire architecture of CodeRush had to change for an uncertain market. Sure Delphi has gone native again but it's still a completely new IDE and besides too much time has elapsed to pick up the Delphi CR codebase.

If you need CodeRush with Delphi, D7 is your best bet unless we can get DXCore working with Delphi Prism.

re: Borlands latest product is pure genius!

Monte Etherton — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:11:50 GMT

Here's one more D7 user who would lose to much (CodeRUSH) productivity by upgrading. Is CodeRUSH for Delphi 2010 even a possibility? I seem to remember later than D7 versions of Delphi not allowing coding access to the IDE, which Mark needs to work his magic. Maybe that door needs to be unlocked by Embarcadro in order for CodeRUSH to even be a viable consideration? Then again, maybe that door is "nailed shut"?

re: Borlands latest product is pure genius!

Mattias Olsson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:43:27 GMT

I also still use D7 because of coderush..

re: Borlands latest product is pure genius!

Steve Horne — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:54:02 GMT

I too used to use D7 for all my native development, even though I bought D2007 to show my support for the product. I also miss CodeRush for Delphi even now with D2010. IMHO even Embarcadero hasn't figured out how to incorporate features that make an IDE as productive and as intuitive as Mark did many years ago now. I've tried a few of the other products in this niche and they don't even come close. I for one, would buy CodeRush for Delphi again...

re: Borlands latest product is pure genius!

Richard Morris (DevExpress) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:29:18 GMT

After VS2010 support is finished, one of the many items the IDE team have on their agenda is researching Delphi Prism support. It's been on our To Do list for a number of years, and each time we started researching into it (and it is a Massive effort to undertake), we were swamped by higher priority tasks (like a new VS, or some task for Microsoft, or a competitor). But this has been something we've all wanted to do for some time.

re: Borlands latest product is pure genius!

Mike Potter — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:44 GMT

It *is* unfortunate that DevExpress no longer supports CodeRush for the later versions of Delphi. I stuck with Delphi 7 for a LONG time just because of CodeRush. Finally gave in to using Delphi 2007 a couple of years ago. I still miss CodeRush each and every day that I program. I won't mention some competing IDE enhancements that I've tried since none of them are nearly as good as CodeRush. Perhaps with the renewed health of Delphi these days, DevExpress might consider giving us CodeRush for Delphi again someday? I know a LOT of Delphi developers would be really happy.

re: Borlands latest product is pure genius!

Kyle Miller — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:27:12 GMT

That's a funny lead-in! Mmm, cookies.

I have read many positive things about Delphi 2010. I hope to use it soon. I have been focusing on Delphi Prism lately and hope to use some DevEx components in it. I love DevEx VCL products.