About Delphi Wings (ORM) - delphi

Someone knows if Delphi Wings (The Embarcadero ORM for Delphi) will be available in Delphi 2010? I'm testing some ORMs but I will preffer the Embarcadero one, if it's available shortly.
Regards,
Francis

Wings isn't an officially endorsed Embarcadero ORM that will be part of Delphi. It is a project developed by Paweł Głowacki, who is an Embarcadero employee.

I didn't know that Embarcadero plan something like this. CodeGear and current Delphi already supports ECO. See also embarcadero developer network.
BTS ECO is an excellent framework that should be investigated, I have started using it myself.

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Will programs developed using Embarcadero Delphi XE3 work with Embarcadero Delphi 2010

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.

The free Delphi 2006 compiler

On Wikipedia I read:
Borland Delphi 2006 [...] Each version is available in two editions:
Explorer—a free downloadable
version—and Professional
Is this edition still available? Or are people who grabbed it in 2006 lucky and the others not that much?
Unfortunately there are no free Delphi versions now. You can use free Turbo Delphi only if you already have the product keyfile, but you can't obtain new free Turbo Delphi keyfile anymore.
Lazarus Free Pascal is free and OpenSource, it is very similar to Delphi.

What testing framework/unit testing to use with Delphi XE Starter Edition

I'm looking at moving from Delphi 2007 (purchased by my employer) to Delphi XE Starter Edition (purchased by me because my employer is moving away from Delphi) for some open source/hobby work. So, price is definitely a concern.
Delphi XE Starter Edition doesn't appear to have the integrated DUnit stuff. Are there any recommendations for testing frameworks that will work well with XE Starter? The framework must be automatible; for example, it must must be runnable by a Continuous Integration System such as Hudson or CruiseControl. Of course, free would be best. Integration directly into the IDE would also be handy, but not a requirement.
DUNIT is on SourceForge so you can get it from there. The version on SF is 9.4.0, the same that ships with Delphi XE. The code is however not identical. I do not know if it works with Delphi XE Starter edition but I don't see why it should not.
Will DUnit2 do?
Dunit2 is used in tiOPF framework and said to be quite good. The download sites are:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dunit2/
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~mcnabp/
http://github.com/graemeg/dunit2
DUnit may be a better choice that DUnit2. With DUnit you can use the jcl and USE_JEDI_JCL to get the line numbers of failures. DUnit2 doesn't appear to support this.
DUNit2 doesn't seem to be getting much attention since Peter's death either. I don't know if it has been updated to use the latest version of delphi but it doesn't look like it.

Good Delphi Prism online resources

A Google search on "delphi prism", "delphi prism resources" or "delphi prism code snippets" reveal almost no good sites at all are there any good programming site(s) with some good amount of code snippets and tutorials on Delphi Prism?
Thanks in advance!
#omair, you have you have basically five ways to obtain information about Delphi Prism
1) The official Info
Prism Wiki
Developing for Mono with Delphi Prism
2) Using the Blogs
Introduction to Language Integrated Query with Delphi Prism: Part 1
Introduction to Language Integrated Query with Delphi Prism, Part 2
Using LINQ to Objetcs in Delphi Prism
Introduction to Delphi Prism (CodeProject)
Delphi Prism and the Cirrus Framework (#jamiei blog)
Dynamically compiling code with Delphi Prism (#jamiei blog)
Dynamically generating code with Delphi Prism (#jamiei blog)
Delphi Prism and the Microsoft Rx Framework (#jamiei blog)
3) as #jamiei suggest Translate the C# or VB .Net Code to Delphi Prism is not difficult, you can use the C# to Oxygene Tool or you can do it manually.
4) the books
Delphi Prism Development Essentials Dr. Bob
Delphi Prism Manual de referecnia (spanish)
Delphi for .NET Developer's Guide (this book is about delphi .Net but is very useful)
.NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers (very nice book, cover intermediate and advanced topics about .Net under a Delphi Programmer Perspective)
5) Ask in StackOverflow
Agreed, along with the Prism Documentation Wiki it's worth noting that the best resources for .NET code are nearly all composed of C# code snippet sites.
The RemObjects team have built a C# to Oxygene tool and have even integrated it into the IDE so you can copy C# code from sites such as CodeProject and the MSDN documentation and paste it directly as Delphi Prism code into the IDE.
Best place I find is http://prismwiki.codegear.com/en/Main_Page
There's also the various CodeGear and RemObjects newsgroups.
Prism was just a rebranding of the Oxygene compiler. If you search for Oxygene then you are more likely to find resources.

Is Delphi Prism a new version of Delphi .net?

First of all (before this question get down voted): I am a developer developing 99,99% of my programs using Delphi targeting Win32 (developing in Delphi 7 still, very slowly migrating to Delphi 2010).
When Delphi 2006 or 2007 (can't remember which version at the moment) came out I bought the RAD Studio edition to be able to start developing .net applications using Delphi.net and VCL.net.
I played around with it for some short time, but in the end, due to work load just kept using Delphi 7 as development platform.
When Delphi 2010 came was released, I decided to give .net a go once more, and (foolishly) bought the Studio License once more thinking the include PRISM was the previous Delphi.net (to be developed in the Delphi IDE).
Now that I have installed PRISM (and the Visual Studio 8 IDE - o horror), I am just wondering whether PRISM is a new version of Delphi.Net or not (probably not). And if I can use some of my Win32 code under Prism.
UPDATE AFTER SOME REPLIES: I keep the question open because you get more answers when a answer has not been selected yet.
I do miss the Delphi IDE though. It's all a mather of taste but having to develop in two different IDE's (where f.i. the keyboard shortcuts are different - and I don't want to give up the Delphi ones, thank you)) is not my idea of spending my development time.
Prism is a replacement for Delphi .Net - it has been developed by RemObjects and its original names were Oxygene and Chrome ( http://www.remobjects.com/ ).
Because it's much more mature than Delphi .Net in the .Net segment it now is included in Delphi RAD Studio instead of Delphi .Net.
You won't be able to use all of your W32 code, but the syntax is very similar and most algorithms will probably work without any change.
See http://prismwiki.codegear.com/en/Win32_Delphi_vs._Delphi_Prism for a detailed comparison of Delphi W32 and Delphi Prism.
No. Delphi.NET was designed specifically to be backwards-compatible with Win32 Delphi code. Prism is not. It was not developed by the Borland/CodeGear team, doesn't include VCL support, and has a handful of minor language differences. It's better to think of it as a new dialect of Object Pascal than as Delphi.NET.
The main difference was that Delphi.Net was mainly a port of the RTL/VCL to .Net, as well as an adaptation of Object Pascal to be a .Net language.
It had to include a full blown IDE with a special Delphi.Net Form Designer.
The goal was to help move a VCL Forms application to .Net with a minimum of changes, or create new application without having to re-learn the IDE and the library.
Delphi Prism is also an adaptation of Object Pascal to the .Net world but with more emphasis on being a fully fledged .Net language (even more so than C#) and much less worries on being compatible with Delphi.
It is just the language, hosted in Visual Studio, and does use whatever designer is provided by the IDE.
So in the end pure Pascal code will be very much similar, and easily ported, but rich GUI applications will need more rewriting/redesigning.
Yes and no.
Oxygene (FKA Delphi Prism) replaces Delphi for .NET, but it is not a new version of it.
They have different design philosophies and are not 100% compatible. As Francois pointed out, Prism does not include the VCL.Net. Instead it focuses completely on supporting the .NET GUI Frameworks: WPF, Silverlight, Prism, WinForms, ASP.NET, etc.
Delphi for .NET was all about migrating and backwards compatibility. Delphi Prism is all about being a full featured .NET development language and "forward compatibility."
You can create you pure business logic as code compatible between Delphi native and Delphi Prism, but all the GUI and IO code (anything that makes use of the VCL or RTL) will be specialized.
Check out the Oxidizer and ShineOn for more help in migrating and code compatibility with Delphi Prism.
No, Prism has been labeled Delphi more to make it more popular, like Delphi PHP.
It's not like Delphi.NET, with a VCL-alike etc, or even a compatible language (it uses method instead of procedure and many other deviations).
So you can see if you like it, but from what I have seen from it, having used Delphi won't be much of an help, and neither do existing codebases.

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