Delphi – Which features of Delphi 2010 Enterprise version are valuable to you, and why

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I'll shortly be making a purchase decision regarding Delphi 2010. I've always been a "Professional" level developer (meaning I've owned the "Professional" SKU of the product before), but I'm considering buying the Enterprise edition this time. I pay for my own tools, and the $1150 difference in price (for the RAD studio product) is not insignificant to me.

What features from the Enterprise edition do you use regularly? What additional capabilities do they provide you in your work, how do they save you time and effort during programming, or how do they improve the quality of your work?

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As a software developer for a desktop program, I've never had any need for client/server tools.

Short and sweet, if you need client/server database connectivity, then you may need more than Delphi Professional.

Otherwise, Delphi Professional does fine.

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Delphi – the compiler version for Delphi 2010

Here's the list of compiler versions:

{$IFDEF VER40}  - Turbo pascal 4
{$IFDEF VER50}  - Turbo pascal 5
{$IFDEF VER55}  - Turbo pascal 5.5
{$IFDEF VER60}  - Turbo pascal 6
{$IFDEF VER70}  - Borland pascal 7 (And turbo pascal 1.5 for windows)
{$IFDEF VER80}  - Delphi 1
{$IFDEF VER90}  - Delphi 2
{$IFDEF VER100} - Delphi 3
{$IFDEF VER120} - Delphi 4
{$IFDEF VER130} - Delphi 5
{$IFDEF VER140} - Delphi 6
{$IFDEF VER150} - Delphi 7
{$IFDEF VER160} - Delphi 8
{$IFDEF VER170} - Delphi 2005
{$IFDEF VER180} - Delphi 2006
{$IFDEF VER180} - Delphi 2007
{$IFDEF VER185} - Delphi 2007
{$IFDEF VER200} - Delphi 2009
{$IFDEF VER210} - Delphi 2010
{$IFDEF VER220} - Delphi XE
{$IFDEF VER230} - Delphi XE2
{$IFDEF VER240} - Delphi XE3
{$IFDEF VER250} - Delphi XE4
{$IFDEF VER260} - Delphi XE5
{$IFDEF VER265} - Appmethod 1.0
{$IFDEF VER270} - Delphi XE6
{$IFDEF VER280} - Delphi XE7
{$IFDEF VER290} - Delphi XE8
{$IFDEF VER300} - Delphi 10 Seattle
{$IFDEF VER310} - Delphi 10.1 Berlin
{$IFDEF VER320} - Delphi 10.2 Tokyo

In Delphi 2007, VER180 and VER185 are both defined. This was for backward compatibility with Delphi 2006, and to make sure you could also detect D2007 specifically.

I'm not sure why they did that between '06 and '07, but not for other releases. Seems inconsistent to me (but it isn't - see Barry Kelly's comment below).

Mysql – Delphi 2010 and MySQL

Use TAdoConnection and TAdoQuery:

implementation
uses adodb;
{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
  mAdoConnection: TAdoConnection;
  mAdoQuery: TAdoQuery;
begin
  mAdoConnection := TAdoConnection.Create(application);
  mAdoConnection.ConnectionString := 'Mode=ReadWrite;Extended Properties="DRIVER=MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver;DATABASE=mydatabase;SERVER=myserver;UID=myusername;PASSWORD=mypassword;PORT=;OPTION=3;STMT=;"';
  mAdoConnection.LoginPrompt := False;
  mAdoConnection.Open;
  mAdoQuery:=TADOQuery.Create(application);

  with mAdoQuery do begin
    Connection:=mADOConnection;
    CursorType := ctStatic;
    ParamCheck := False;
    SQL.Add('SELECT * FROM SYSSET');
  end;
  mAdoQuery.Open;
  showmessage(mAdoQuery.fields[0].AsString);
  mAdoQuery.free;
  mAdoConnection.Free;


end;

Note: change the "My....." to your server, database, username and password. This also assumes you have the MySql ODBC driver installed on the computer.

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