New! Ride the Windows 10 Wave - Take Your Applications and Customers to Windows 10
Windows 10 is the most significant PC release in many years and it is a big opportunity for software developers.
You're a BDS 2006 or Delphi or RAD Studio 2007 user and know all about rapidly developing great apps for Windows. So of course you're going to appreciate the bona-fide boost your skills and market opportunity get when you move up to RAD Studio 10 Seattle. You'll get to mobile, connect and integrate with gadgets, data and services in exciting new ways and make sure your app is ready for Windows 10!
The Windows 10: The Big New Opportunity for Developers whitepaper is an in depth evaluation of why RAD Studio developers are ideally placed to take advantage of Windows 10 and why now is the time to prepare for new ways of developing and deploying Windows 10 applications.
Check out the RAD Studio 10 Seattle What’s New page for a complete listing!
Incredible Windows 10 Support
Delphi and C++Builder developers will be able to rapidly update their VCL and FMX applications to take full advantage of the Windows 10 wave. Support includes Windows 10 and native WinRT/UWP components and APIs, Windows 10 VCL User Experience controls, and updated Windows 10 FMX support.
Double the IDE Project Power
“Behind the Scenes” this release introduces a re-architected product and build management system that effectively doubles the project size capacity resulting in higher stability and performance when dealing with large projects, particularly multi-platform projects. As a developer if you’ve experienced limitations or issues with large projects, this release is the must have upgrade.
Quality and Stability and Documentation
Major changes and improvements have been made to the development, testing, and documentation processes to better accommodate the many platforms and languages that RAD Studio now supports as well as to introduce new features and functionality across all supported platforms and languages with higher quality, stability, and documentation. RAD Studio 10 stands to be the new benchmark for quality, documentation, and stability.
RAD C++ for Windows 10
C++Builder 10 introduces the world’s first CLANG based C++ compiler for Windows and mobile with RAD PME extensions for rapid Windows and Cross-Platform development, tight integration with VCL for Windows and FMX cross-platform frameworks, C++11 language support, and ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) based memory management for C++, and backward compatibility. The new C++Builder compiler makes RAD Studio 10 a must upgrade for C++ developers or new C++ developers coming from other languages and toolsets such as Java, ObjectiveC, C#, XCode, Xamarin, and Visual Studio.
Connect your apps and business with any web, social, or cloud service – and now gadgets and wearables!
The number and types of devices people interact with on a daily basis have been expanding at an amazing rate. Within a single development environment, you can build high performance, connected applications that easily connect with enterprise data, cloud services, devices, sensors, gadgets…and more! The new Enterprise Mobility Services (EMS) allows you to easily connect your users and apps to managed APIs, databases and services with analytics.
Get your app and business to mobile – with iOS and Android
Android and iOS are the largest and hottest addressable mobile markets on the planet. Now you can use your RAD Studio developer skills to create mobile apps and expand your reach to far more users on the most popular platforms.
Power up with 64-bit apps and Parallel Processing
Push the envelope of performance by creating 64-bit Windows applications that take advantage of the latest hardware and access more memory. Easily integrate parallel processing into your existing app with the new Parallel Programming Library. All Windows technologies in RAD Studio 10 Seattle are 64-bit enabled including FireMonkey, VCL, RTL, compilers and debugger.
Integrate your apps with all popular databases
FireDAC database components and drivers are now fully integrated into RAD Studio. This empowers you to give your apps native high-speed direct access to InterBase, SQLite, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, SQL Anywhere, Advantage DB, Firebird, Access, Informix, DataSnap and more local/embedded, mobile and enterprise databases.
Unicode-enable your apps to handle data and documents from all modern sources
With Unicode support your apps will be able to read, write, accept, produce, and display Unicode data. You'll dramatically improve your ability to support customers and data from around the world, while eliminating the pain of handling different character sets and data encodings.
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History of Delphi Innovation
Did you know you can now create Android, iOS, Windows and OS X apps with Delphi? Whether you know it as Borland Delphi, CodeGear Delphi or Embarcadero Delphi, this presentation shows you new features by version from Delphi 1 through Delphi XE6.
Now is the time to upgrade! Don't miss out on the opportunity to modernize your Windows VCL apps and extend your business to mobile. Upgrade to RAD Studio 10 Seattle today.