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Please calm down. There is no sense in hyperventilating now in a 1.5 years old thread. In addition, useless a and total garbage have no objective meaning. If you want things to get better you should clearly describe where the current implementation doesn't fit your needs. Perhaps some slight adjustments to the workflow are enough to get you on track. If there still are issues they should be described properly so they can be evaluated and implemented properly. Pure ranting doesn't help at all. OT: This reminds me of the move to the new Galileo IDE with the docked layout, where people said they will stay with Delphi 7 forever. I still feel sorry for all of them who did.

That is a severe problem with the Parnassus plugins: They use modules shared between Delphi versions. This has been a source of many problems even before they were handed over to Embarcadero. The integration in GetIt and the need to uninstall all GetIt stuff for an update just raises the visibility.

After so many versions and the Parnassus issues - it would be great if they finally could fix it properly 😕

Not so - they used helpers to avoid breaking dcu compatibility between the other 11.x releases - those helper methods will be merged into the classes in the next major release. Without the binary compatibility, third party vendors would find it next to impossible to support the varions .x releases.

To me quite the opposite, just the release we needed. Quality updates should come more frequently IMHO. -Tee-

I actually still have got a Windows 8.1 installation (VM) around and I don't plan to update it to 10 ever. But that's not because I am a big fan of Windows 8, I just don't want to break a currently working environment. I'm not sure whether I want to try installing Delphi 11.2 on it though - because "working environment", you know.

Upgraded my two machines from Delphi 11.1 to 11.2 (No Android. No IOs. No Linux). Web Install, keeping registry settings. Issues I noticed so far are: Both machines have GExperts Add-in. I usually always disable GExperts before using GetIt or reinstalling, or anything that will restart the IDE, as it always causes a crash on restart. On the first machine I forgot and I got an error message. I rebooted and no lasting issues. Library path for 64-bit was reset to defaults. I did have to reinstall my GetIt packages (in my case, Konopka Signature VCL Controls and LockBox) Refactoring is still broken if your code declares inline variables. I use Refactor | Rename a lot, but this does not work in files that have inline variables, so I can’t/don’t use inline variables. Please Embarcadero, fix this. It has been years. My code executables grew slightly, not enough to care. Previous issue that was in 11.1 with changing Build Group configuration is fixed. My custom toolbar buttons were retained for once.

How do you know that the IDE will still work in such an unsupported environment when all possible options are installed? Anyway, if the glitch in the wording of the install notes is all to criticize, it must be a near to perfect release.

OK I'm intrigued now. Most of the content in that edition seems pretty outdated 20 years later. From the Palette Take Action — Bill Todd For those of you who need to give an application’s menus and toolbars the look and feel of Microsoft Office 2000, Bill Todd introduces the new Delphi 6 ActionManager and ActionBars components. Dynamic Delphi From XML to Object: Part II — Keith Wood Keith Wood wraps up his two-part series on the XML Data Binding Wizard by sharing sample applications that demonstrate how to read and display XML documents — and generate new ones. In Development Build Your Own Compiler: Part I — Fernando Vicaria Fernando Vicaria demystifies compilers using the straightforward approach of showing you how to build one with Delphi, and by keeping the jargon and formalism to a minimum. It’s the first of a four-part series. Sound+Vision Hierarchical Models in OpenGL — Araz Yusuf OpenGL provides a wide range of routines for modeling complex objects, but it has no built-in mechanisms for rendering hierarchical models. Araz Yusuf shows us how he gets the job done with Object Pascal. On the ’Net Taming the Beast from Redmond — Dave Ball Dave Ball provides a step-by-step explanation of how to deploy ISAPI DLLs within an MTS or COM+ memory-protected development environment, by configuring IIS settings within the MMC. Inside OP — Gary Warren King Forms and dialog boxes often have interdependent field and display properties whose friendliness can rapidly decay. Mr King shows how to keep your UI responsive — by delaying events. I'm going to guess you're either building your own compiler or doing some sort of throwback ISAPI DLL deployment?

I'm a packrat who holds on to those sorts of things. Will contact you via direct message.

Not problem for me, but "interesting" choice to implement those features with helper, they kind of can modify existing classes quite freely if they want 🙂 -Tee-

As far as I understand, not the DB layer (TFields and stuff) is throwing the exception, but your Writer is, correct? If that's the case, have you seen its StringEscapeHandling-property?

10.3 and 10.4 were major versions. Then you got 10.3.n and 10.4.n as incremental upgrades. They changed this with version 11. 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 are the same version.

There are some scenarios where which helper will be visible does not work as expected. Last helper in scope is not always visible https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-38448

FWIW, the helpers embarcadero introduces in an update should disappear in the next major version, as those helpers were only used to avoid breaking dcu compatibility - so their methods will be rolled into the classes. At least that's the plan.

Regular Expressions have been revamped. The following feature requests have been implemented: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-21733 https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-22372 https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-22381

Available for subscribers from https://my.embarcadero.com/#downloadsPage What's new: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/whats-new-in-11-alexandria Change log: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/11_Alexandria_-_Release_2 Installed and upgraded smoothly in my test VM Well, except the GetIt plugins... so those needs to be manually reinstalled from the GetIt dialog.