In late 2005 Delphi 2006 (Delphi 10, also Borland Developer Studio 4.0) was released combining development of C# and Delphi.NET, Delphi Win32 and C++ (Preview when it was shipped but stabilized in Update 1) into a single IDE. CLX support was dropped for new applications from this release onwards. in statement (like C#'s foreach) to the language.ĭelphi 2005 was widely criticized for its bugs both Delphi 8 and Delphi 2005 had stability problems when shipped, which were only partially resolved in service packs.
NET-only release that compiled Delphi Object Pascal code into.
Delphi 6 also added:ĭelphi 7 trial version installation disc Later Borland years (2003–2008) Borland Delphi 8ĭelphi 8 (Borland Developer Studio 2.0), released December 2003, was a.
Shipped in 2001, Delphi 6 supported both Linux (using the name Kylix) and Windows for the first time and offered a cross-platform alternative to the VCL known as CLX.
Shortly before the release of the Borland product in 1995, Novell AppBuilder was released, leaving Borland in need of a new product name. However, the Borland marketing leadership preferred a functional product name over an iconic name and made preparations to release the product under the name Borland AppBuilder. One of the design goals of the product was to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database package at the time was Oracle database hence, "If you want to talk to Oracle, go to Delphi".Īs development continued towards the first release, the Delphi codename gained popularity among the development team and beta testing group. Borland developer Danny Thorpe suggested the Delphi codename in reference to the Oracle at Delphi. Early Turbo Pascal (for MS-DOS) was written in a dialect of the Pascal programming language in later versions support for objects was added, and it was named Object Pascal.ĭelphi was originally one of many codenames of a pre-release development tool project at Borland.