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New Borland Development Studio

Posted by michael on from the galileo's-head-was-on-the-block dept.

mesozoic writes "News.com is running a scoop on Borland's up-and-coming development suite, code-named 'Galileo'. It'll be compatible with both .NET and Java, and is aimed at developers who don't want to be cornered into using Microsoft's entire suite of programs. I personally am very nostalgic for Borland's old DOS-based IDE, and I'll be watching for this in the future."

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  1. C++ ABI Compatibility w/Visual Studio.NET? by lprimak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anybody know whether Borland tools (new or old) are ABI compaible with MS' tools, especially for C++ (unmanaged)
    i.e. do C++ libs compiled with VS.Net work with Borland's tools/applications?

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    Lenny Primak PP-ASEL-IA,Heli
  2. Re:Am I missing something? by f00zbll · · Score: 2, Interesting

    what does "buggy as hell" refer to? I've used interdev and source safe and hated it. Especially the way the old version of source safe didn't really lock files when you locked it. That was always a nice surprise when some one else goes to do a check in on a file you had explicitly locked. How some one can edit and check-in a file locked by someone else is beyond me.

  3. Microsoftized by Latent+Heat · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I was kind of expecting that Visual Studio .NET would be a lot like Delphi but it is more like a Microsoftized version of Delphi where they made the simple complicated.

    For stuff like developing custom controls along with custom property editing, you can do pretty much anything in Delphi by overriding the correct object method. Finding what object method to override can require some searching, but once you figure it out it is clean and simple. Oh, and you look at the class framework source code if you are really stumped.

    Once you get past the simple-minded Visual Basic style of programming and get into customizing the design-time behavior of controls for Visual Studio, the thing is a mess of attributes (runtime type info (RTTI) that are themselves objects) and classes you need to extend and plug into those attributes along with service providers, extender providers and gosh who knows what else. Who designed this thing? Did they put implants into Anders' brain?

    I wonder how Borland is going to make some sense of this mess.