Delphi XE2

The fastest way to build native Windows, Mac and iOS applications

Embarcadero Delphi XE2, now with FireMonkey, is the fastest way to deliver ultra-rich and visually stunning native applications for Windows, Mac and iOS – including 64-bit Windows applications. Dramatically reduce coding time and build applications 5x faster. Delphi XE2 provides component-based visual development and a fully visual two-way RAD IDE with high performance access to popular databases. 

• Delphi XE2 Data Sheet (pdf)
• Delphi XE2 Feature Matrix (pdf)
• What's New in Delphi XE2?
• Delphi XE2 Editions

Deliver fast, native 32-bit and 64-bit applications

Delphi enables you to write an app once and compile it for Windows and Mac OS X. You can also create iOS mobile application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Your real native applications take advantage of the power and speed of the CPU and GPU. And it's all done with the power and speed of component-based visual development that saves you time while still giving you full access to source code and hardware when you need it.

Deploy to Windows, Mac and iOS

With the included FireMonkey platform, Delphi makes it easy to build your application and compile natively to both Windows and Mac OS X. You can also create stunning iOS mobile apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and distribute on Apple's App Store. Delphi FireMonkey applications take full advantage of the power and speed of your devices CPU and GPU.

Create more visually stunning and interactive applications

Delphi's new FireMonkey application platform lets you easily build apps that are visually spectacular, highly interactive and data rich for PCs, Macs, and mobile devices. Build stunning HD and 3D user interfaces powered by GPU scalable vector graphics with programmable animation and hardware based Photoshop-like image effects.

Build applications that connect everywhere

When you use Delphi, your applications get built-in high-speed connectivity to all popular databases. Delphi's RAD Cloud data and application services connect to all popular client platforms, frameworks, languages, and devices today. Connect iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 mobile applications to your DataSnap applications and database services.

Data-aware UIs and beyond – visualise live data

Delphi's new LiveBindings let you connect any data source to any VCL or FireMonkey user interface or graphic element. LiveBindings give you the power and creative freedom to present data to users in more intuitive and interactive ways. LiveBindings also include expressions giving you incredible power and flexibility to build "dynamically" calculated and updated bindings.

What's new in Delphi XE2

Delphi XE2 offers exciting new functionality giving you the ability to build highly visual, business applications for Windows, Mac and iOS. New Windows 64-bit support throughout, FireMonkey, new VCL styles, live data bindings, expanded database connectivity, and much more.

Build 64-bit Windows applications

Now you can create 64-bit Windows applications with Delphi to take advantage of the latest hardware, access more memory, and push the envelope of performance. All Windows technologies are 64-bit enabled included FireMonkey, VCL, RTL, the Delphi compiler and debugger streamlining the migration of existing VCL applications to 64-bit.

Deliver rich applications to Windows, Mac and mobile

Delphi XE2 with the new FireMonkey application platform enables you to compile natively to Windows, Mac and iOS. Your applications take full advantage of the power and speed of the CPU and GPU.

Create visually stunning and interactive applications

Quickly build FireMonkey applications that are visually spectacular, highly interactive and data rich for PCs, Macs and mobile devices. Deliver rich business applications that engage your users with an immersive, interesting, and interactive application experience.

Bring new style to your VCL applications

Delphi XE2 introduces VCL Styles, enabling you to apply a custom look and feel to your VCL applications. Styles are applied to your existing components and UI elements so it's easy to get a new look without swapping out components. Choose from the included, professionally designed styles or use the VCL Style Designer to customise or create your own.

Put your data and logic in the cloud

Delphi XE2 includes expanded cloud computing integration with new data and deployment options. The included cloud API supports data storage and access to blobs, message queues and tables on Windows Azure as well as Amazon Simple Queue Services, Simple DB, and Simple Storage Service. Use the new Deployment Manager to deploy your applications to both Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Windows Azure.

Connect everywhere

Delphi XE2's dbExpress delivers new connectivity options with support for InterBase XE, FireBird 2.5, SQL Anywhere 12 and ODBC giving you more database choices than ever. New DataSnap mobile connectors allow you to build Mobile clients for iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone (using Xcode, Eclipse, and Visual Studio mobile development tools) that connect seamlessly with your Delphi DataSnap servers.

Data-aware UIs and beyond – visualise live data

Delphi's new LiveBindings let you connect any data source to any VCL or FireMonkey user interface or graphic element. LiveBindings give you the power and creative freedom to present data to users in more intuitive and interactive ways. LiveBindings also include expressions giving you incredible power and flexibility to build "dynamically" calculated and updated bindings.

Work smarter and faster with an expanded developer toolbox

Delphi XE2 includes both new and updated integrated tools to help you get your job done faster. Delphi XE2 now includes FastReport for quickly designing and generating reports; and Documentation Insight, an integrated live source code documentation tool. XE2 also includes 64-bit versions of TeeChart, IBX, InstallAware, IP*Works, AQtime, FinalBuilder, IntraWeb and Indy.

Delphi XE2 Editions

Delphi XE2 Professional

Delphi XE2 Professional is designed for developers building high-performance desktop GUI and touch-screen applications with or without embedded and local database persistence. Delphi XE Professional's ability to generate fast, native applications with rich user experiences makes it especially well-suited for ISVs who want to build highly-graphical "packaged" applications for Windows, Mac and mobile from a single source code base.

• Cross-platform development for Windows, Mac and iOS using the FireMonkey application platform
• 64-bit development
• dbExpress local database connectivity to InterBase and MySQL
• Expanded coding tools including Code Completion, live code templates, refactoring, command line tools, code formatter, Class Explorer, unit testing, and translation tools
• Special edition bundled tools including FastReport, Documentation Insight, AQtime Developer, Beyond Compare Differ, Raize CodeSite Express, IP*Works, TeeChart, IntraWeb Personal, Rave Reports, InstallAware, and glyFX graphics library
• Earlier version licenses and software for Delphi 7, 2007, 2009, 2010 and XE at no extra cost
• Advanced debugging views and debugging of multi-threaded applications
• Cloud computing integration with Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure
• XML, Web Services, and advanced COM/DCOM development
• Expanded VCL component set and VCL source code
• UML code visualisation, providing a visual representation of source code for easier understanding
  

Delphi XE2 Enterprise

Delphi XE2 Enterprise is designed for developers building rich, data-oriented client/server, cloud, and multi-tier GUI and Web applications that work seamlessly with a wide variety of database servers and data sources. Delphi Enterprise's high-performance heterogeneous database server support is ideal for multi-vendor database server scenarios, or building turnkey applications that can work with a wide array of database servers. Delphi Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus the following for building client/server and multi-tier database and Web applications:

• Database server connectivity to InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix and, Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere, and ODBC
• DataSnap multi-tier application development
• FinalBuilder Embarcadero Edition and command line tools for build automation
• Full two-way UML modeling capabilities with multiple diagram types, synchronisation between code and models, documentation generation, and design patterns
   

Delphi XE Architect

Delphi XE2 Architect is designed for developers and teams building data-intensive client/server, cloud, GUI and Web applications with large or complex enterprise database systems. Delphi Architect combines data-driven rapid application development and heterogeneous high-speed data access with rich visual data modeling to help developers understand, design, and get the most value out of existing enterprise databases and data structures. Delphi Architect includes everything in the Enterprise edition plus powerful database modeling and design capabilities:

• Reverse-engineer, analyse, and optimise databases
• Automatically generate database code from models for forward engineering
• Create logical and physical models based on information extracted from databases and script files
• Work with highly readable and navigable diagrams
• Advanced compare and merge with bidirectional comparisons and merges of model and database structures.
  

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