Diving right in on Delphi 8

As everyone knows, Delphi 8 is Borland's incarnation of Delphi for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Due to licensing issues (which I think is just Microsoft flexing their muscle), Borland can't name Delphi as Delphi.NET.

Instead of giving everyone an introduction on what Delphi 8 is about, which Borland has done a fine job of, let's look at issues that Delphi 8 itself has.

You cannot declare properties with attributes that does not descend from TCustomAttribute.

The following Delphi code fragment

[Xml('F')]
property F: Integer read FX write FX;

doesn't compile, while the C# code fragment

[XmlAttribute(”F”)]
public int F { 
  get {return FX; }
  set { FX = value; }
}

does compile.