We are using Delphi XE at our company to develop some Delphi applications and as well as .Net.
TFS 2010 is our primarly source control mechanism for .Net; but we want to use TFS 2010 for Delphi.
I installed Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 but i couldn't see any menus or windows at Delphi XE editor about Team Explorer.
So how can we connect Delphi XE to TFS 2010?
AFAIK TEE 2010 is an Eclipse plug-in, Delphi is not an Eclilpse based IDE, nor it could use MSSCCI/SCC providers without adds-on. If TFS 2010 can work with an MSSCCI/SCC provider (you may have to install support separately), then you can use a Delphi add-on, see for example Use Team Foundation Server in Delphi 7?, it is for Delphi 7 but situation didn't change much.
Delphi XE can use a new API to handle VCS directly, but it is not compatible with older versions (making it less appealing for those who sell already existing add-ons), and thus requires someone to add TFS integration, and TFS is not usually the first choice by Delphi shops. Moreover fashion today dictates that DVCS are hot, and most efforts are in that direction.
You would need to find or produce a TFS 2010 plugin for the Delphi IDE! To the best of my knowledge, Embarcadero has only integrated SVN (Subversion) into the IDE (XE and XE2).
A quick Google search does not look too promising... so a lot of manual effort may be required on your part, or you may have to simply change your choice of source management solution.
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We are putting our existing Embarcadero Borland C++ Builder 6 projects into the new free Microsoft source control called "Visual Studio Team Services" (aka online version of TFS or Team Foundation Server formerly called Team Foundation Service).
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs
How can I put my code from my BCB 6 project to use it with this system.
Of course I'd prefer to have IDE integration, but as long as I have some kind of GUI I'm fine with doing source code tasks outside of the BCB IDE.
Are there any BCB files that are binary and therefore might be an issue with comparing changes?
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
C++Builder does not have any native TFS support (not even in the latest version), let alone any VSOnline support. At least with TFS, there are third-party plugins to let C++Builder access TFS:
SourceConneXion
TFS.us
For TFS, you can also use the standard TFS client GUI. For Visual Studio Team Services, who knows.
Several files are binary, including RES and TDS, but you usually don't need to do diffs on those. You should, however, make sure to set your DFM files to Text mode, as they are set to Binary by default. DFMs are always binary in the final executable's resources, but the DFM source files can be either text or binary, and you will likely do diffs on DFMs from time to time.
you could use the visual studio shell (aka 'team explorer everywhere') to do checkins etc
and you could also use the power tools (tfpt) to give you explorer integration.
We are trying to develop a form that will be added to a project written and created using Embarcadero Delphi 2010 , We will use Embarcadero Delphi XE3 as our Development Environemt, will the code that we will write work on Embarcadero Delphi 2010 ?
If not where can I download Embarcadero Delphi 2010, I can't find it on the Embarcadero official site.
Thanks
Previous versions can be downloaded here:
http://www.embarcadero.com/xe3-earlier-versions
Depends ....
if you don't use rtti and generics and remove qulified namespaces, restrict the use of foreign components it could work, but i think it's not recommended.
If you are properly registered you have an edn account:
Pick Downloads / Registered User Downloads
It is in there. You should be able to go back to Delphi 7. 2010 is at the bottom of the page.
The latest stuff in XE3 is highly recommended. The improvements over the last few years are definitely worth it, and the upgrade will pay for itself in very short time even if you only gradually learn and use the new stuff.
We are currently upgrading from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2010. With Delphi 7 we use Source Connection to integrate Delphi 7 with TFS, but there does not look like there is going to be a Delphi 2010 version in time. Is there any other integration option out there?
VssConneXion is not ready for Delphi 2010 yet (there is a version for Delphi 2009 on their downloads page).
Currently, I'm running the (Microsoft) Team Explorer for managing my source code check-out/check-in and work-items.
It works fine, even though it is not integrated in the Delphi IDE.
I've not tried which version of Team Explorer works with which versions of Team Foundation System (this question has a bit more info), but here are a few download links:
Team Explorer 2010
Team Explorer 2008
Team Explorer 2005
--jeroen
There's athlant, but it's seems there's no updated version for Delphi 2010 too.
I used VssConneXion for years, but I gave up because they don't update it frequently, and you have to wait much months for new release, so I went to SVN with TortoiseSVN, and since that day, I have never needed any IDE integration, it's work wonderfully without the IDE integration, but you may don't like it at first, but after few time, you will like it more than IDE integration.
I recently bought Bob's book Delphi XML, SOAP & Web Services
in page 85 of this book the (Delphi 2006 8used) comes with several New Item Categories such as
C# Projects
C++ Builder projects
Delphi for .NET Projects
something that you don't have in a fresh installation
I need this ASP.NET Web Service Application that is inside Delphi for .NET Projects, but I can't find how do we get this plugin(?) to install in Delphi so we get all this new projects categories.
Does any of you use this and can tell me what is the Plugin?
image from the book showing what we are after
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We tried Delphi prism but it is not that as Prism works in Visual Studio it self and not in Delphi Studio.
We also tried to send an email to Bob Swart but no answer from him :(
We thought and we own RAD Studio 2007 Professional, and that comes with that Delphi for .NET Projects but not the ASP.NET Web Services, so, we are thinking that it only be available for the Enterprise or Architect versions, but I can't find any information regarding where is this (bundle details and what's inside what) :(
Thanks
The Delphi.Net functionality was removed after Delphi 2007, so I am not sure why you do not see the project type. But as Delphi.Net is a pretty dead technology it would probably make sense to look for an alternative for .Net development like Delphi Prism or C#.
Actually, since Delphi 2007, the functionality has been split into three different product, plus a fourth studio product. There's Delphi for WIN32 which includes C++ and Delphi for .NET which includes C# and ASP.NET. And then there's the Developers Studio which combines these development systems into one product. There are also products called Turbo Delphi, Turbo C++, Turbo C# and Turbo Delphi for .NET.
To be honest, Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero is trying to find the most popular combinations of these products making it very unclear for developers to choose the right version. Now we have Delphi Prism for .NET which integrates in Visual Studio, plus Delphi and Delphi for .NET or whatever. Anyway, I stopped upgrading Delphi since I bought Developer Studio 2007 simply because they're making a big mess of their marketing strategy.
Plus, they're becoming too expensive. For .NET development, Visual Studio will provide plenty of options already, especially when designing web applications. I will upgrade once the price becomes reasonable again and their marketing strategy becomes more normalized. I fear it will be a cold day in Hell when that happens.
You're probably using just the WIN32 version, not the Studio version which would combine both. Or you just installed the WIN32 and not the .NET part! Or, with Delphi 2007, you just start the WIN32 identity, not the whole Studio identity. (Delphi will install multiple icons, one for Delphi/WIN32, one for C++, one for C#/.NET and one for the complete studio.)
Just adding that I myself use the RAD Developer Studio 2007 and it does contain the ASP.NET Web Services. Just make sure you've included them during installation!
Got it.... (finally)
The best way to integrate Delphi code in a .NET output (in my case ASP.NET Web Services) is to download Delphi Prism (free trial version for evaluation) and use it.
File > New Website > ASP.NET Web Service > Language: Oxygene > Choose the required Framework
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This will create a normal ASMX Web Service with the .pas file as the Code Behind :)
Exactly what I'm after!
I'm a .NET developer and use VS2008/TFS2008. Recently, another developer has left our company and now I have to maintain his code. He was a Delphi developer (Delphi 7 mostly, but also Delphi 2007) and he didn't use any source control.
Is there a way to put his code in Team Foundation Server? Integration in the Delphi IDE is a big plus.
To get IDE integration with TFS in Delphi 7, you need can use the MSSCCI provider for TFS in conjuction with SourceConnexion which gives MSSCCI support to Delphi. You will need to install the following on your machine if you do not have them already:
Microsoft Team Explorer 2008 (The TFS Client)
The Microsoft MSSCCI provider for TFS 2008
SourceConnexion
You need to ensure that you have TFS client access licenses for any of the Delphi folks connecting to TFS and get them a license for the SourceConnexion plug-in.
As you already have VS2008 installed on your machine talking to TFS2008 you probably only need to install items 2 and 3.
See Eyal's blog post for more information (a little out of date but stil valid).
We use SourceConnexion (3rd party plugin) with D2007:
http://www.epocalipse.com/scx.htm
(Works nice with SCC api plugin of Plastic SCM, which has better branching support than TFS :-) )
I realize that this is an old thread but during my reserach on how to use TFS2012 with Borland Delphi 2006 the posts here helped me a lot, so I wanted to share my experience.
To use TFS2012 or TFS2010 with Borland Delphi 2006 please follow these steps.
Download and install Microsoft Team Explorer 2010.
Download and install TFS MSSCCI provider TFS2010 (make sure you download the 32-bit version even if on a 64-bit machine!).
Download and install SourceConnexIon.
Open Borland Delphi 2006, click on the Source Control menu item and follow the configuration wizzard.
You must follow this order or SourceConneXion won't detect TFS.