New for native Windows development (Delphi and C++Builder)

Radically reduce development time

Every feature in the RAD Studio development environment is designed to speed coding so you can complete your projects faster. RAD Studio 2010 will make you even more productive and save you time with enhancements throughout the IDE:

• IDE Insight for easy access to all IDE features, settings and components without searching through menus and dialogs
• Code Formatter to enable consistent coding styles with less work
• C++ Class Explorer for quick navigation and management of classes in your project
• Improved Search and File Reopen to quickly find the information you need
• Debugger data visualizers make debugging easier by customizing the display of data types in the debugger
• Debugger thread control for freezing, thawing and isolating threads as well as setting breakpoints for selected threads so you can track down problems
• New Debugger Options: "Scroll new events into view" and "Ignore non-user breakpoints"
• New introductory code audits and metrics in Delphi Professional for better understanding code and project health; full set of audits and metrics in Enterprise and Architect

Free your customers from keyboards

Rapidly build touch based GUI, tablet, touchpad, and kiosk applications or easily upgrade existing applications UIs with little or no additional coding.

• Pluggable gesture engine architecture
• Works on all supported versions of Windows (2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7)
• Use touch-enabled hardware or work with what you have (e.g. mouse)
• Integrated support for touch and multi-touch interfaces in the base VCL
• 30+ standard gestures for panning, zooming, rotating and more
• Create your own with the Custom Gesture Editor
• Touch Keyboard - a complete virtual keyboard for enhanced non-keyboard interface interactions that supports multiple locales and languages

Make the connection with data and apps

With RAD Studio 2010 you'll make the connection with more data, more Web Services, and more application architectures

• New Firebird 2.1 and 1.5 support in dbExpress
• Updated drivers for InterBase 2009, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g and MySQL 5.1
• Take advantage of Web Services functionality from Amazon and others with new SOAP 1.2 client support
• HTTP communication and in-process connectivity for DataSnap multi-tier applications
• New DataSnap wizards from the Object Gallery to make server creation even easier
• DataSnap callbacks enable servers to communicate with clients
• Filtering allows for complete control over the data stream between clients and DataSnap servers
• Participate in popular application architectures with REST and JSON values support in DataSnap

Reach more user desktops

Support more Windows desktops without worrying about the specific Windows API details of each version and support users worldwide with Unicode throughout the development environment and improved language support.

• VCL controls are optimized to take advantage of the capabilities and theming of XP, Vista and Windows 7
• Fully Unicode enabled throughout to handle worldwide data and users
• Deliver touch and mouse gesturing enabled apps on Windows XP and Vista and take advantage of the new touch support in Windows 7
• Expanded Open Tools API for building plug-ins to the Delphi IDE

• English, German, French and Japanese translations available for IDE menus and dialogs, compiled units, resources, and source code
• Easy switching between languages for IDE menus and dialogs and more

Code and compile like never before

Delphi 2010 includes new RTTI support and new compiler and language enhancements

• RTTI support for exposure of Methods, Fields, and Properties to support dynamic invocations and other meta-programming approaches
• Object-oriented file and directory IO classes
• Custom attribute support for most code elements - types, fields, properties, methods and parameters
• Enhanced TStringBuilder for easier and faster string concatenation and manipulation
• Enhanced generics with full RTL list and collection support
• Enhanced support for localized resources
• Background compilation so you can continue working while you compile

C++Builder 2010 further builds on previously introduced C++0x language features with even more compiler and library enhancements:

• FastMM is now the standard heap manager for C++ runtime libraries
• Support for #pragma once
• -Zx option for generating XML representation of source code
• Added support for _FUNCTION_
• Support for [[deprecated]] attribute
• __declspec(dllimport) and __declspec(dllexport) for template classes
• Update Boost libraries 1.39
• Improved standard C++ heap manager
• Optimized string/memory handling functions
• Background compilation so you can continue working while you compile

More data modeling power in RAD Studio 2010 Architect

RAD Studio 2010 Architect edition includes new ER/Studio 8.0 Developer Edition to help users discover, document, and re-use data assets and gives you the power to easily reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize databases. New ER/Studio features include:

• Visual Data Lineage - Visually analyze and document how data flows through your organization without needing to inspect code
• Attribute-level Submodeling - Choose which attributes/columns to include in the entities/tables in the submodel and also describe submodels on the new Definition tab, then create queries to search on the definitions
• Object-level Compare Flags - Indicate intentional discrepancies when comparing models that the Compare Wizard should ignore
• Produce reports in HTML format
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 support

New for .NET development (Delphi Prism)

Go further with the Delphi Prism language

The Delphi Prism language is a great way for Delphi developers and .NET developers to write .NET applications. Delphi developers can take advantage of familiar syntax and .NET developers will find exciting language features not available in other .NET programming languages.
The Delphi Prism language has been updated with the following new features:

• Enhanced compatibility with the Delphi language
• Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
• Support for Dynamic Typing (under .NET 4.0)

Delphi Prism's AOP makes it possible to change the behavior of code, add or remove fields, properties, events or methods and even extra classes, by applying special kinds of attributes - Aspects - to classes or members.

Aspects are written in Prism, compiled into a separate library, and are reusable by different projects. They are also fairly simple to write. Aspect attributes are loaded and instantiated by the compiler at compile time, and are given the chance to take very powerful influence on the code the compiler is generating.

Additional features have also been added to the language and compiler since the original 2009 release of the product:

Major Compiler Features

• RemObjects Cirrus: AOP for Oxygene
• Standard Aspects Library for RemObjects Cirrus (shipping as Tech Preview)
• Unmanaged Exports
• Generic Type Variance
• Volatile fields
• CLSCompliantAttribute support and compiler warnings
• New LINQ Query Expressions operators Skip, While, Take and Take While

Minor Compiler Features

• Unquote expression support (mainly to support Cirrus)
• $DELPHICOMPATIBILITY compiler directive and project option
• Runtime range checking
• Range Enum Types (e.g. "type Ten = 1..10;")
• Read-only classes
• Support for negative low bounds in Array Types

Other New Features

• CodeDom enhancements to support OxygeneInterface, OxygenePartial and OxygeneEmpty tags in UserData
• Pre/Post build events
• Debug options: Remote Machine
• Custom "Add Reference" pane for adding Mono assembly references
• New Monobjc Template and Monobjc libraries deployed with Delphi Prism
• Updated setup to install the latest Mono 2.4
• Added Internet Pack as an integrated part of setup
• Integrated F1 help based on an offline copy of the documentation wiki
• Added templates for ASP.NET Web projects

Make the connection with data and applications

With Delphi Prism 2010, developers can build .NET DataSnap client applications that use new capabilities of DataSnap 2010, including support for communicating with the server using the HTTP protocol. DataSnap features are available in Delphi Prism Enterprise, Embarcadero RAD Studio Enterprise and Embarcadero RAD Studio Architect.

Features vary by product edition. See the RAD Studio 2010 Feature Matrix for a full list of features by edition.