>
> In what regard exactly? Have you considered upgrading to Delphi 2006?
>
.NET ability...
>> I hear C# and VB are the way forward.
>
> Says who?
For a start a computer scientist I know who has a Bsc....
> Then try Delphi 2006 before you decide to abandone it altogether.
>
No, because if Borland and Indy together cannot get things working, then it
doesn't look promising does it.
>
> Did you try contacting the Indy Experts program yet?
> http://www.atozed.com/indy/experts/
I'm poor. I cannot afford paid support.
> Did you try contacting the Indy developers directly in Indy's own
> newsgroups? news://news.atozed.com
Yes.
> You did not provide any details about your IDE setup. You did not provide
> step-by-step details of everything you tried. Your screenshots were
> useless
> without adequate context.
How can I provide details of the IDE setup if I do not get told EXACTLY what
I need to tell?
Exactly what else would you want from the screenshots? - Telling me its
useless is pointless (and rather dismissive) unless you tell me how to
improve them!!! - IE "Can you get a screenshot of........." OR "Can you
screen shot the entire screen..." etc.
>> It would appear D2005 has screwed over my other machine as a
>> system service I wrote in D6 is no longer working the way it should.
>
> Please elaborate. The VCL's service architecture has not changed at all
> since D4, which it was first introduced.
Basically I wrote a program in D6. On my main machine it works perfectly. On
the machine I installed D2005, hell breaks loose. The program does weird
things, seems to mix up source code and run 1/2 of a procedure and then stop
completely and run another. It seems to be cross executing which I know is
impossible. It doesn't even update a friggin list box like it should. It
simply reads from an ini file and then stops. It doesn't freeze it just
simply doesn't do anything at all. Debugging shows the code works perfectly
however it refuses to run properly as a {interactive} system service at all.
On my D6 powered machine its fine. I think D2005 or Indy has done something
strange to the XP setup. At one point my prgram was detecting IP address
changes every 5 seconds. VERY STRANGE.
>
>> DELPHI 2005 FOR .NET SUX.
>
> Try Delphi 2006 for .NET. It is much better.
If I can ever get hold of it.... Borland only allow serials to be downloaded
from their site now. They don't seem to allow full Delphi downloads which is
rather stupid. How can people try and then buy the bigger better versions?
>
>> Why do I need VCL version of Indy for .NET instead of .NET version?
>
> Indy for VCL supports all Borland environments, including Delphi.NET, and
> some third-party non-Borland environments (.NET, Mono, Linux, Unix, Mac,
> etc).
See this is where I hold Indy to blame. They don't explain this very well.
They use typical programmers communication of "Shortest sentence explains
all" without actually realising we don't all have PHDs....
People need to keep it simple in order for communication to be effective.
