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Borland Developer Studio 2006 :: ECO III

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Bob Swart gives his opinion of Borland's new ECO III...
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BDS 2006 includes Enterprise Core Objects III. Apart from being a new version with new features, the most important change compared to Delphi 2005 is that ECO III core features are now available in every edition of BDS 2006 (as long as it's .NET). That means that you can use ECO III in the Professional edition of Delphi 2006 for .NET or C#Builder 2006 - it's no longer limited to Architect users only.

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ECO (Enterprise Core Objects) is an object oriented application framework which can use modelling features for creating database or 'data based' applications. An overview can be found here on Borland's site. For a hands-on guide, see Bob Swart's series for Bitwise on creating a Blog application using ECO II.

With the Professional edition of BDS 2006, you can use ECO III features to design your UML (Unified Modelling Language) model, work with EcoSpaces and make them persistent in XML files, and bind them to visual controls. The Enterprise edition of BDS 2006 adds persistency to databases instead of XML files, which means multi-user (and ASP.NET) support.

With the Architect edition, we get additional database wrapping (reverse engineering) and support for State Machine models. With the latter, I've already mentioned one of the many new features, which also include ASP.NET AutoForms and many more, which will be covered in my next Delphi programming article for Bitwise, covering ECO III.

In my personal view, ECO II was good, ECO III is even better, and it's now available for everyone, so do yourself a favor and make sure to check it out!

More information on ECO on Borland Developer Network's ECO Neighbourhood.

January 2006

 

Bob Swart (aka Dr.Bob - www.drbob42.com) is an author, trainer, developer, consultant and webmaster for Bob Swart Training & Consultancy (eBob42) in The Netherlands, who has spoken at Delphi and Borland Developer Conferences since 1993. Bob has written chapters for seven books, as well as the Borland Delphi 8 for .NET Essentials and Delphi 8. ASP.NET Essentials courseware manuals licensed by Borland worldwide, and is selling his updated Delphi 2005 courseware manuals online at http://www.drbob42.com/training. Bob received the Spirit of Delphi award at BorCon in 1999, together with Marco Cantù.


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