Yeah, here it comes. The language that taught me the basis of OOP. Anders Hejlsberg’s opera prima (not quite true, Turbo Pascal came before and something else I guess). Now and here the Delphi language (formerly known as Object Pascal) moves its first steps into the big family of the .NET Framework: hooray!

And now some nice new features:

• VCL .NET, one of the most powerful and (IMHO) almost the “raddest” one completely rewritten to embrace the .NET Framework
(you also gain the ability to import WinForms controls in the VCL.NET realm)


• Borland Data Providers for ADO.NET supporting Interbase, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and more


• ECO runtime platform and ECO OR/M


• LiveSource for UML modeling (it ships also with Together - a tool for collaborative development)


• and more…

Here is an online demo: http://www.borland.com/delphi/demos.html.

See the FAQ, Data Sheet and the Tech Overview.

More information on the Delphi 8 (aka Octane) on its homepage: http://www.borland.com/delphi_net/index.html.

As Borland say: “The Delphi evolution for .NET revolution”.