Borland C# Builder
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Borland's C# Builder is the wildcard for .NET development, providing an alternative IDE for creating applications for the .NET framework. Borland has had some experience in creating IDEs for various languages and platforms and that experience shines through within C# Builder, shown here in Figure 4.

To start, prototyping with C# Builder is painless, with a clean, consistent IDE that makes it easy to quickly create and format page elements. The user interface itself is similar to the UI found in Visual Studio and developers familiar with that environment will have no trouble with productivity in C# Builder. For compatibility between tools, projects from C# Builder can be exported to Visual Studio-compatible projects.

In addition sharing a similar appearance to the Visual Studio IDE, C# Builder can also leverage most of the third-party components and tools that are available for Visual Studio, even if they were not written for C# Builder (although check with your third-party vendor to ensure that these components are supported for use with C# Builder before getting too far down the development path.)

For building component-driven applications, the ace that C# Builder has over other RAD tools is its interoperability with J2EE applications through Janeva, Borland's object request broker, which is an implementation of Visibroker for the .NET framework. Using Janeva you can leverage the existing J2EE applications within your organisation, which could potentially save time during a RAD project.

Team-oriented development is also well supported within C# Builder with support for source control and versioning. There are also a number of tools and technologies that have filtered down from other Borland products that make C# Builder a versatile tool for modelling and building applications, supporting a variety of developer roles (architect, modeller, developer).



Figure 4: Borland C# Builder

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Mathias Burbach - 02/10/04

Hello David,

what about Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) in C#Builder. Wouldn't that be worth a paragraph? And with the new version of ECO II coming up in Diamondback (next version of Delphi & C#Builder in one IDE) you can even do reverse engineering your ECO model from an existing database.

Salut,
Mathias

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Doug K - 06/04/05

My heartfelt thanks for this objective and informative article! What are your feelings about Sun's Java Studio Enterprise V.7?

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