What's new in Diamondback - Allen Bauer

Allen Bauer's Presentation will be focused on the IDE specifically.. the room is packed (standing room only)

Multiple personality IDE

• Delphi Win32
• Delphi for .NET
• C#

Debugging

• Win32 & .Net debuggers working simultaneously.
• Debugging .Net code hosting a Win32 process
• AppDomain support in the Module View for managed apps. (App domains show up in the modules panes and in the scope browser pane)
• Soring in the modules view
• Better stack traces in Win32 apps (for frames that don't have Debug Info) (Even after an Exception!)
• Locals view allows for changing frames in Win32
• Exception notification dialog enhancements
  • Break/continue buttons
  • Ignore Exceptions type check box
  • .Net exceptions now show the exception message on dialog
• Unicode enabling view that show program data (watch, locals, inspector, stack, etc...)
• Connect to IIS better
• Better evaluators
• CPU View

Refactoring

• Rename detections naming conflicts
• Extract method
• Extract Resource string
• Sync Edit
• Find unit or namespace
• Declare Field
• Declare Variable
• C# & Delphi (Win32 & .NET)
• Refactoring will cross languages, if you change a C# symbol and it is used in Delphi code the engine will change both!!!
• Will refactor DFM Values as well.

SynEdit

• Select a section of code and press the SynEdit Button or Shift-Ctrl-J
• Then you can tab through common symbols, and change all symbol of the same name at the same time.
• This is COOL!

VCL Designer

• Floating Designer will be supported!!!! Even for VCL for .NET (But not Winform's)
• Drag and Drop from the component palette is now support instead of just click and click. (BTW click and click is still supported)

Structure View

• Similar to Object Tree View
• Shows Errors from Error Insight (see Below)

Error Insight

• Shows Errors by underlining
• Such as undeclared identifiers.
• Does not require a Compile

Component Palette

• Custom Categories allow you to move components for other sections in your own.
• Completely Customizable
  • Icon Size
  • Show Caption's
  • Plus (5-15 More options that I could not record fast enough)

Project Manager

• Has File Management functionality
• Shows Source Tree
• Right Click (Rename)
• Right Click (Add Folders)

File|New Other Dialog

• Much better,tree view down the side instead of all of the tabs.

Help Insight

• If you place your mouse over a symbol
• It will tell you where it is declared and the parameters.
• If an Xml Document is generated for the given symbol it will give that help as well.
• If a parameter has help it you can click on it an see the help for that parameter as well.

History Tab

• Shows all of the changes that you have made to the file.
• Saves X number of changes to your file.
• Easy to revert to a previous copy
• Diff Viewer to see all of the changes.
• Does not require Star Team
• Enhanced if Star Team is installed because you see items in the repository as well.

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