What''''s new/improved in Diamondback
IDE
Multiple personality IDE
The IDE now allows you to create projects and manage for multiple languages and platforms.
C#
Full support for developing C# applications is included in the IDE
Delphi/Win32
Full support for developing Delphi for Win32 applications is included in the IDE
Delphi.NET
Full support for developing Delphi for .NET applications is included in the IDE
Current personality indicator
An icon appears to the right of the menu, indicating which personality is currently active for that project.
General IDE changes
Object Inspector
New look and feel
Better context management
Tool Palette
New look and feel
Better context management
Incremental search improved
Optionally display gallery/repository items in Tool Palette when no project is active
Project manager
Project manager now displays folder structure of project items
Delphi/Win32, Delphi/.NET and C#Builder projects in the same project group.
Alphabetical sorting option
Additional context menu items
Welcome page enhancements
Integrated News feed
Better looking
Debugging
Win32 & .NET debuggers working simultaneously.
Debugging .NET code hosted in a Win32 process.
AppDomain support in the Module view for managed apps (App Domains show up in the module panes and in the scope browser pane)
Sorting in the modules view
Better stack traces in Win32 apps (for frames that don''''t have debug info)
Locals view allows for changing frames in Win32
Exception notification dialog enhancements
Break/continue buttons
Ignore exception type checkbox
.NET exceptions now show the exception message on dialog
Breakpoint view
Supports in-place editing
Check box to quickly enable/disable breakpoint
Toolbar
"Log call stack" breakpoint action
CPU view showing IL disassembly for .managed processes
Full SSE support including disassembly and SSE register view
Unicode enabling views that show program data (watch, locals, inspector, stack, etc.)
Refactoring
Rename
Extract method
Extract Resource string.
Sync Edit
Find unit/namespace
Declare field
Declare variable
Undo
Currently, Undo uses a local stripe. Changes since the file has been refactored are not monitored. So, before the Undo is applied, a warning comes up asking if you want to perform the Undo. Applying the Undo, your source file will revert changes back to before the refactoring was applied in all files that were modified. This means you will oose any changes that happened in those files since before the refactoring was done.
Note: Undo only does stripes for “Rename” since that is the only refactoring that affects multiple files. The “Extract Method” refactoring is undone in the IDE via Ctrl-Z (regular Undo). Same with declare field and declare variable.
C# & Delphi (Win32 & .NET)
VCL designer (.NET & Win32)
Embedded/non embedded
Left/Top properties can be independently set and persisted with embedded
Can now drag-n-drop from palette
Demand loading of Win32 design-time packages
Persistent bookmarks
Versioning
Multi-level backups with History view
StarTeam integration
Main menu item
StarTeam Project management
Create
Check in/out
create directories
Embedded client
External client launching
Project Manager
Project groups
Manage associations for project groups
Structure pane
Items pane files open in IDE
History view StarTeam aware
locking/unlocking/merging
Change requests
File renames are tracked
SCC API improvements?
Error insight
Expanded real-time error information for source
Integration into the structure view.
Help insight
Tooltip from XML doc information
Updated/consolidated new component wizard
Combines all functions of New VCL component/import AX Type library/control
Open API
New Open Tools API services
Structure View API (native and managed)
History View API (native and managed)
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