What's Delphi 2005?
什么是Delphi 2005？
Delphi 2005 is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building Delphi, Delphi for .NET, and C# applications. The Delphi 2005 IDE provides a comprehensive set of tools that streamline and simplify the development life cycle. The tools available in the IDE depend on the edition of Delphi 2005 you are using. The following sections briefly describe these tools.
Delphi 2005是一个开发Delphi for Win32，Delphi for .NET，C#应用程序的集成开发环境。Delphi 2005集成开发环境为开发的生命周期提供了一整套流程化和简单化的强大的的工具。集成开发环境中有用的工具依赖于你使用的Delphi 2005的版本。下面将简要的介绍这些工具。
Defining Requirements
需求定义
Delphi 2005 provides an interface to Borland CaliberRM, a Web-based requirements definition and management system designed to help control the product development process. Within the IDE, you can access CaliberRM to collaborate on project requirements and ensure that your applications meets end-user needs.
Delphi 2005提供一个接口给Borland CaliberRM——一个协同的、基于互联网的需求定义与管理的系统，能够加快应用程序的提供速度。使用集成开发环境，你能有效的使用CaliberRM来实现各个开发小组开展无缝的协同工作，和用户融洽的沟通。
Modeling Applications
建模工具
Modeling can help you can improve the performance, effectiveness, and maintainability of your applications by creating a detailed visual design before you ever write a line of code. Delphi 2005 provides UML-based class diagramming tools and a framework of Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) to help you create model-powered .NET applications.
建模能帮助你改进应用程序的可执行性，高效性和可维护性。
Designing User Interfaces
The Delphi 2005 visual designer surface lets you create graphical user interfaces by dragging and dropping components from the Tool Palette to a form. Using the designers, you can create VCL Forms, Windows Forms, Web Forms, and HTML pages.
Generating and Editing Code
Delphi 2005 auto-generates much of your application code as soon as you begin a project. To help you complete the remaining application logic, the text-based Code Editor provides features such as refactoring, synchronized editing, code completion, reusable code snippets, recorded keystroke macros, and custom key mappings. Syntax highlighting and code folding make your code easier to read and navigate.
Compiling, Debugging, and Deploying Applications
Within the IDE, you can set compiler options, compile and run your application, and view compiler messages. The integrated Borland .NET and Borland Win32 debuggers help you find and fix runtime and logic errors, control program execution, and step through code to watch variables and modify data values. The Delphi 2005 ASP.NET Deployment Manager can assist you in copying the files required by you ASP.NET application to a web server. Additionally, the .NET Framework includes several utilities to help you prepare applications for deployment. Delphi 2005 includes InstallShield Express for creating Windows Installer setups.
Controlling Access and Tracking Changes to Code
Source control systems enable team development by controlling access and tracking changes to source code and other files. Delphi 2005 provides a full-featured, direct integration with StarTeam, Borland's automated change and software configuration management system.
Delphi 2005 also supports several other source control systems, such CVS, ClearCase, and Visual SourceSafe, through the Microsoft Source Code Control (SCC) API. Within the Delphi 2005 IDE, you can perform common source control tasks, such as file check in, check out, and synchronization.
The .NET Framework
The Microsoft .NET Framework provides the foundation for building and running .NET applications. The Framework includes the common language runtime and class library. The common language runtime manages the execution of code and provides services, such as memory management and cross-language integration, that simplify the development process. The class library is a collection of reusable, object-oriented components for developing .NET applications that take advantage of the common language runtime services.
Delphi 2005 makes the entire Framework class library available in the IDE to help you develop .NET applications. Delphi 2005 enhances the Framework in the following areas:
The Delphi 2005 Borland Data Providers for .NET provide access to InterBase, Oracle, DB2 Universal, and Microsoft SQL Server databases.
Several database utilities assist in performing tasks such as connecting to databases, browsing and editing databases, and executing SQL queries.
The .NET Menu Designers simplify the creation of main menus and context menus on Windows Forms.
