What is Delphi Prism?

Sometimes being on-site slows you down. The WiFi is spotty and just finding a change to sit down is a challenge. The news about Delphi Prism is out. What is Delphi Prism? It is Delphi with full .NET 3.5+ support running in Visual Studio, with a number of the high power database solutions you would expect from CodeGear / Embarcadero.

Behind the scenes, this is accomplished with a stack of

• Microsoft's Visual Studio Shell (which I talked with Marco Cantu about in Episode 10),
• RemObject's Oxygene Compiler of the Delphi Language for .NET (Talk with marc hoffman about in Episode 5)
• CodeGear's dbExpress, DataSnap and Blackfish SQL database solutions (Podcasts coming on these topics!)

You put all that together and you have a pretty exciting solution for .NET development.

Check out the impressive list of language features available in Delphi Prism, that are not available in C#.  We talked about a lot of these in Episode 5.  Notably:

• Parallel Loops
• Inline Property Accessors
• Class Contracts
• Extended Constructor Calls
• Boolean Double Comparison

Not to mention all the cool things you can do with the database tools.

I am sure there is much more to come about Delphi Prism.