Delphi XE, Why Delphi

Dramatically reduce development time

With Delphi you can build Windows applications 5x faster or with 5x fewer resources than with other development solutions – without sacrificing performance or capability. From the desktop to the web to the server, every feature in Delphi’s development environment is designed to speed coding and its RAD frameworks are designed to reduce the amount of code required for any given development task, all of which means faster time to completion with fewer resources.

Build applications faster with pre-built components

Assemble ready-made components that take care of the repeatable, low level, and hard to do tasks. Delphi XE frees you to focus programming on where you can add the most value to your application. With a few clicks, you have access to tens of thousands of pre-built open source and 3rd party components for web services, UI, devices, industry specific functions, and more. Reduce your risk, slash the time you spend programming.

Future proof application development environment

Delphi XE is the only application development environment that gives you native connectivity to 9 major databases and ready-made components for cloud connectivity. Build one server, choose any database and any web or rich client front end for scalable, enterprise-class applications. Our products support the widest range of platforms and databases so you know that what you develop today can easily meet your customers’ deployment needs for tomorrow.

Powerful integrated tool chest

Delphi XE includes powerful third-party tools that accelerate and the development process and optimize application performance. New tool chest offerings include an advanced difference engine (Beyond Compare), build automation (FinalBuilder), performance profiling (AQTime), memory/resource debugging (AQTime), and logging (CodeSite) and component suite for Internet app development with advanced IP communications protocols (Software IP*Works)

Streamlined version control with Subversion integration

Delphi XE now includes the popular Subversion version control system to manage source code revisions for an individual developer’s own code or among your teams.

AppWave and earlier version access

You can now get the power of XE with AppWave, which give you immediately access to your apps, including earlier version, while saying goodbye to desktop installs, manual upgrade processes, PC performance degradation and manual license tracking. You will also get the AppWave browser, which provide you with a mobile-like experience that allows you to discover and run apps.

Speed your way from prototype to production

Get your ideas started fast with rapid prototyping using the time-tested, extensible, rich and full-featured Visual Component Library. You get a full-powered and simple-to-use set of components for building amazingly rich user interfaces. Then add additional functionality with your own code and third party components to take your ideas to production without skipping a beat.

Free your customers from keyboards with dazzling touch based UIs

Rapidly build touch based GUI, tablet, touchpad, and kiosk applications, and easily touch-enable your existing applications. Delphi gives you flexible gesture support with interactive multi-touch on Windows 7 and gesture support Windows XP and Vista, as well as support for input from multiple sources including mouse, pen and touch screen.

Native support to all major databases

Delphi provides lean, native, high performance access to all the popular database management systems including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Anywhere, InterBase, Firebird, and more. Using a robust, powerful database access framework, developers can easily access, create, read, update and delete data with ease, either from visual controls or in code.

Go further with code reuse

Code and components in Delphi are designed from the start for reuse. Use or customize the hundreds of included components for everything from user interfaces to database access or choose from tens of thousands of 3rd party commercial and open source components to do anything from a to z. If you can think of it, there’s likely a component available to get it done.

Reach more user desktops

With Delphi, you can support multiple Windows desktops without worrying about the specific Windows API details of each version. Your user interfaces can take advantage of new Windows 7 and Windows Vista elements like ribbon controls while still supporting users on previous versions back to Windows 2000.

Build in quality

Delphi provides developers with a rich, full featured debugger that peers into generated code all the way down to the actual assembler. Developers can set conditional breakpoints, view stack traces, track variables, inspect the depths of any object, and peek into the CPU itself. In addition, Delphi extends the developer tool chain to support unit testing, enabling developers to write test driven code and capture bugs before they even make it into the build.

Globally expand your app’s reach

Easily build or enable your existing apps to seamlessly interact with users and data in any language, currency, or character set with fully integrated Unicode data and UI support throughout. Use the included language support and translation utilities to more quickly create localized versions of your apps.

Make the connection

With Delphi you’ll make the connection with more data, more Web Services, and more application architectures. Delphi enables developers to connect to a wide variety of servers using industry standard protocols, including COM, XML, SOAP, REST, JSON and Web Services to tie in with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions.

Compile in the blink of an eye

Delphi is based on a world-class, blazingly fast compiler. Highly readable and maintainable, the Object Pascal-based Delphi language is a completely object-oriented language with all the modern language features the make for productive, powerful, and robust code. Delphi also provides complete access to the native Windows API. Delphi then compiles all this code in the blink of an eye – even huge projects are compiled in a matter of seconds.