{"id":3143,"date":"2010-09-14T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3143-delphi-xe-includes-licenses-for-older-versions-back-to-delphi-7.html"},"modified":"2010-09-14T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:35:28","slug":"delphi-xe-includes-licenses-for-older-versions-back-to-delphi-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3143-delphi-xe-includes-licenses-for-older-versions-back-to-delphi-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Delphi XE includes licenses for older versions back to Delphi 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just picked up that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embarcadero.com\/products\/delphi\" target=\"_blank\">Delphi XE<\/a>, the latest RAD Windows development suite from Embarcadero, includes licenses for older versions going back to Delphi 7.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an explanation and list of what\u2019s on offer <a href=\"http:\/\/delphi-insider.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/access-to-older-versions-included-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Delphi 7 was the last version to use the old fully native code IDE and is delightfully fast and lightweight by today\u2019s standards. Delphi 2007 was the last version before big Unicode changes in Delphi 2009, which often broke code, so could be useful for older projects.<\/p>\n<p>The FAQ includes a few points of interest. Embarcadero is dismissive of the old Delphi for .NET (before Prism) and will not supply it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That is an old technology that was replaced by Delphi Prism and we don&#8217;t want to encourage use of that old product.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have purchased XE and want to take advantage of the offer, you must do so within 180 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just picked up that Delphi XE, the latest RAD Windows development suite from Embarcadero, includes licenses for older versions going back to Delphi 7. There\u2019s an explanation and list of what\u2019s on offer here. Delphi 7 was the last version to use the old fully native code IDE and is delightfully fast and lightweight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3143-delphi-xe-includes-licenses-for-older-versions-back-to-delphi-7.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delphi XE includes licenses for older versions back to Delphi 7<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,67,80],"tags":[318,363,849],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","category-development","category-professional","category-software-development","tag-delphi","tag-embarcadero","tag-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}