Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #83
10 Sep
- The Delphi 2009 ISO is available for anyone to download at: http://cc.codegear.com/free/delphi. You might note that it is less than half the size of the ISO for D2007.
- I’ve just published Part III of my three part series on getting ready for Unicode. The article is entitled: Unicodifying your Code.
- Delphi 2009 has a readme file and installation notes.
- Delphi 2009 installs fast.
- Steve Shaughnessy, our Database Architect, has been burning up his keyboard writing a lot of good articles on Datasnap.
Software assurance notifications. Now. Please.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:08 pmThere is no ISO here (http://cc.codegear.com/free/delphi) … Could you provide a more "direct" link ?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:49 pmJust a reminder Nick … you forgot to respond to these [Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #82] …
Maybe these could be addressed more "officially" to avoid rumors circulating into the wild.
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Hi Nick,
So finally Delphi 2009 is in the wild ! Just great, my congrats to the team !
I have 3 simple questions (that expects some straight answers) in the context of upgrading from BDS 2006 (I own the PRO edition, but due to financial reasons I didn’t upgraded to Delphi 2007 yet)
1) If I’ll upgrade to Delphi 2007 + SA (now, even after Delphi 2009 announcement + shipping) I will get the Delphi 2009 ?
2) If I’ll upgrade to Delphi 2009, I could/will get a Delphi 2007 copy (due to the components that are not already "Tiburon ready" I couldn’t move all the projects directly to Delphi 2009 !) ?
3) Remote debugging: In the Delphi 2009 feature matrix is marked as NOT available for PRO edition, but you said (in a forum entry) that it IS available. What’s the truth here ?
10x in advance,
Keep up the good work … and please consider to resume your Camtasia’s demos (focused on 2009 features), that were/are just great ways to demonstrate the Delphi power and spread the word about it !
September 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pmEl Cy - if you upgrade to Delphi 2007 + SA now, you will be a few days too late to receive a free Delphi 2009 in the package (since Delphi 2009 is already shipping). You should have ordered that and made sure the subscription was active before the day it went RTM I’m afraid…
September 10th, 2008 at 10:56 pmUnable to find Delphi 2009 ISO download url.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:00 amCan’t find the ISO either…
September 11th, 2008 at 12:14 amThis would be helpful as the trial installer doesn’t seem to work behind a proxy…
>the trial installer doesn’t seem to work behind a proxy
Is this also a problem with D2009? I was unable to try D2007 because the installer failed on every attempt. Ergo, I never upgraded. I want to give CodeGear my money but they, apparently, want to throw obstacles in my way.
Across-the-wire installs? Seriously? Microsoft doesn’t do it, why does CodeGear.
Epic fail.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:14 amI just tried Trial version and it make me puke. IDE dos not work!
September 11th, 2008 at 3:47 amNo old style palette – ok, can live, but very annoying. Form draw bugs - ok, do NOT save desktop - grrrrrr…..
But it will not save settings for package load and palette order!
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Considering to move from Delphi (started with v 1.0) to non IT industry.
Yes, a Image file of the installations files would ne nice.
Because, I still have BDS 2006.
I wan’t to try Delphi 2009 and C++ Builder 2009 on a virtuall machine, and i don’t want to download the all files in to the VM.
Better on DVD, so i can just install it from the DVD on a VM
g
September 11th, 2008 at 4:15 amg –>
–> reets
September 11th, 2008 at 4:16 amI can’t find the ISO file in (http://cc.codegear.com/free/delphi) , please post a direct link for it.
thank you
September 11th, 2008 at 7:08 amA little creative probing shows that the ISO is available here: ftp://ftpd.codegear.com/download/Delphi_C++Builder2009/Delphi_C++Builder2009.iso
Just follow the link Nick provided and then choose the FTP download and change the .esd_trial.zip to .iso and you have it.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:50 amAdditionally, that link doesn’t seem to work in Chrome, and I don’t know if this install will work with the trial key.
When you connect to the FTP server you get the following:
WARNING: This is a restricted access system. If you do not have explicit
permission to access this system, please disconnect immediately!
But I am assuming that Nick’s comment that it is available for anyone is explicit permission. I may be wrong.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:56 amMay this be the best Delphi 2009 launch ever. I am excited. I think Delphi 2009 rocks. If I may say so, this is not even mostly about Unicode. My hope is that Delphi 2009 is going to be the new baseline version, that the renewal of Delphi (To 64 bit and beyond!) continues and that we can all somehow inspire millions of developers to switch to Delphi!
Warren
September 11th, 2008 at 8:12 amThe ISO download has now appeared, same link as Jim’s apparently.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:54 amDownloading and going to try later!
I am still waiting for the SA ESD download email.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:06 amI believe the SA customers should be given priority over trial version.
@Chris
As a fellow SA customer, I couldn’t agree with you more!! Are there any other SA customers out there that fell the same?
Rick.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:18 amI am not sure, but it is possible to install 3rd party components in the trial version? Today I tried to install the Raize components (trial), but it doesn’t work. The setup didn’t give me an error or warning. Actually it was a setup for Delphi 2007, but on the Codegear side there was posted that Raize components are already ready for Tiburon.
Thanks,
September 11th, 2008 at 10:34 amMarkus
Can I use this ISO to turn D2009 into a full version if entering my serial (if possible)?
cu,
September 11th, 2008 at 11:04 amMichael
Replying myself, yes, I can use my serial to turn in into a fully registered D2009.
However I’ve read that this is the Architect trial, so will this activation also turn the trial into a Pro version when using my purchased license serial?
September 11th, 2008 at 11:56 amRick and Chris. Pro Rad Studio SA customer in UK here and I totally agree with you !
At very least I think SA customers should have got fufilment emails at same time as pre order people not days or weeks later.
Word at the moment is we should get them Friday but I wouldnt hold your breath.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pmCount me as another SA customer who is really, really annoyed that we weren’t sent our download codes first, before the whole world got to download the trial edition.
I can’t even just download the trial and use that for 14 days because it’s not the Pro version. I’d have to uninstall that and re-install with the pro version when the email arrives. Then I’d have to re-install all the 3rd party components, re-modify the editor settings, and by the time I’m done, waste at least a couple hours I can’t justify.
So instead I just have to wait, and wait, and get increasingly annoyed that CodeGear is still the same old CodeGear it was when it was Borland - a sloppy, disorganized company with really poor execution but a good (originally GREAT, recently awful but at least improving) product that I have so much invested in that I can’t reasonably switch to something else (as much as I’ve wanted to over the last 3-4 years.)
September 11th, 2008 at 12:55 pm@Markus
Yes, it should be possible to install 3rd party components in trial. But do NOT use the D2007 installers: These register themselves in the Registry Paths of D2007 where D2009 won’t find them. Additionally, the .bpl’s are not compatible with D2009.
There is a partner DVD with components ready for D2009 on:
http://cc.codegear.com/reg/delphi
But this one is only for registered users who have purchased a license
September 11th, 2008 at 12:57 pm@Nick: Why? What bad things should a trial user do with it that give a reason for this restriction ?!?
Nick,
September 12th, 2008 at 6:10 amI have just checked my email
(US east coast), and again nothing from CodeGear.
As much as I like Delphi, I expected more nimble response to the customers after leaving Borland behind.
I listened to the Delphi podcast and agree with most of your comments.
But still, the treatment of SA customers gives CodeGear a bad rep…
I hate to use the example, but MS takes first its MSDN subcribers than the rest of the world.
Regards,
Chris
PS. still love Delphi…