google search on ''delphi prism' , ''delphi prism resources'' or ''delphi prism code snippets'' reveal almost no good site at all are there any good programming site(s) with some good amount of code snippets and tutorials on delphi prism thanks in advance
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Best place I find is http://prismwiki.codegear.com/en/Main_Page
There's also the various CodeGear and RemObjects newsgroups.
Lloyd
2010-04-28 12:49:25
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Agreed, along with the Prism Documentation Wiki it's worth noting that the best resources for .NET code are nearly all composed of C# code snippet sites.
The RemObjects team have built a C# to Oxygene tool and have even integrated it into the IDE so you can copy C# code from sites such as CodeProject and the MSDN documentation and paste it directly as Delphi Prism code into the IDE.
jamiei
2010-04-28 14:38:12
@jamei the C# to Oxygene tool integrated into the Delphi Prism IDE, will be available in the next official release of Delphi Prism.
RRUZ
2010-04-28 16:26:22
@RRUZ I think it made it into the Delphi Prism 2010 February Release. If you bought RAD Studio 2010 with SA then I think you get the interim releases as included upgrades so 2010 customers may already have it.
jamiei
2010-04-28 16:45:02
@Jamei, check the footer note of the link http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/2010/01/20/p818 `the “February” release will ship a bit later than February, this year, as we want to align it with the public release of Visual Studio 2010, which has been announced for April. Internally, we still refer to it as the “February Release”.`
RRUZ
2010-04-28 16:51:49
@RRUZ I shall consider myself corrected, my advice is to get yourself onto the Beta pronto then.
jamiei
2010-04-28 17:00:40
does C# to Oxygene tool converts c# to delphi 100% ?
Omair Iqbal
2010-04-28 17:10:46
Yes, It converts to Delphi Prism. I've found it to be pretty effective but there are occasional problems so YMMV.
jamiei
2010-04-28 17:19:18
@Omair The problems will arise more with language features. But most code you find inline should convert fine.
Jim McKeeth
2010-04-30 00:27:18
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@omair, you have you have basically five ways to obtain information about Delphi Prism
1) The official Info
2) Using the Blogs
- Introduction to Language Integrated Query with Delphi Prism: Part 1
- Introduction to Language Integrated Query with Delphi Prism, Part 2
- Using LINQ to Objetcs in Delphi Prism
- Introduction to Delphi Prism (CodeProject)
- Delphi Prism and the Cirrus Framework (@jamiei blog)
- Dynamically compiling code with Delphi Prism (@jamiei blog)
- Dynamically generating code with Delphi Prism (@jamiei blog)
- Delphi Prism and the Microsoft Rx Framework (@jamiei blog)
3) as @jamiei suggest Translate the C# or VB .Net Code to Delphi Prism is not difficult, you can use the C# to Oxygene Tool or you can do it manually.
4) the books
- Delphi Prism Development Essentials Dr. Bob
- Delphi Prism Manual de referecnia (spanish)
- Delphi for .NET Developer's Guide (this book is about delphi .Net but is very useful)
- .NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers (very nice book, cover intermediate and advanced topics about .Net under a Delphi Programmer Perspective)
5) Ask in StackOverflow
RRUZ
2010-04-28 16:24:28
Good round up of resources RRUZ. Although a few of those books will be slightly confusing to beginners because of the references to the now depreciated Delphi.NET?
jamiei
2010-04-28 16:42:53