There are a lot of new things to learn with Delphi’s new Unicode string type(s). For example look at Lars’ blog. Quite some interesting posts over the last days.
Apparently, the new Delphi 2009 TStringBuilder class has not got much attention yet, so I’ll give a short recap here.
You may have noticed that Delphi 2009 includes Win32 (Delphi and C++) personalities only. The .NET part has obviously been scheduled for later.
For those of you being curious how the next Delphi for .NET might look like:
CodeGear just “inofficially” announced a Delphi Prism Beta which is basically something like Delphi in Visual Studio. Nick Hodges showed off some early information at SDN in the Netherlands.
Allen Bauer also comments on these, maybe surprising news. So far it looks like in the future there will be two Delphi products, one for Win 32 Development (in the IDE we all know), and an other VisualStudio based IDE for .NET development.
If you have a development realted blog or Web site, then you probably paste source code examples from time to time. Using Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter makes your snippets look very pretty. Read the rest of this entry »