Borland Developer Studio 2006 Reviewer’s Guide

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Borland?Developer Studio 2006
Reviewer’s Guide
The Complete Windows?Development Solution
A Borland White Paper
Produced for Borland by Cary Jensen, Jensen Data Systems, Inc.
November 2005Borland Developer Studio 2006 Reviewer’s Guide
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Contents
Overview ………………………………………………………………….. 5
The Ultimate Product ………………………………………………….. 5
The Integrated Development Environment ………………………… 7
The Improved VCL Form Designer ………………………………………………………………………….. 7
Dynamic Alignment Guides ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 7
Design Guidelines ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8
Form Positioner ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10
Editor Improvements…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 10
Live Templates……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11
Custom Live Templates…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16
Surround Templates ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 18
Block Completion………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 20
The Enhanced Code Editor Gutter…………………………………………………………………………………….. 22
Improved Method Navigation ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 23
Improved Page Management ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 24
Change Parameter Refactoring…………………………………………………………………………………………. 25
Updated Memory Manager ……………………………………………………………………………………. 26
Visual Component Library Updates ………………………………… 27
New Components…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 27
Intellimouse?Support for VCL ……………………………………………………………………………… 28
Other VCL Enhancements …………………………………………………………………………………….. 29
Debugger Enhancements ……………………………………………… 29
Remote Debugging ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 30
Expandable Watches and Local Variables ……………………………………………………………….. 30
Grouped Watches…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 32
Symbol Table Management …………………………………………………………………………………… 33
Database …………………………………………………………………. 34
Support for dbExpress. in the Data Explorer…………………………………………………………… 34
Improved BDP for .NET Support …………………………………………………………………………… 35
BDP for .NET Connection Pooling …………………………………………………………………………………… 35…