The Power of VCL.NET

From: "Kyle A. Miller" <kyle@millerdevelopment##remove#.info>
Subject: The Power of VCL.NET
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:02:58 -0500
Message-ID: <40f825d3$1@newsgroups.borland.com>
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True story. :-)

The company I am with has 10 years of Delphi code. About a year or so
ago, the company hired a C# whiz to write an ASP.NET application based
on the current suite of products. He has been developing and testing
using a hard coded user name and password to the DB. So he finally had
to integrate existing code to fetch and decrypt the user name and
password. The problem for him was decrypting the information. He and
another C# guy spent a day each trying to re-code existing code into
C#. They couldn't get their code to work.

When I heard about this, I said I could create an assembly in Delphi 8
for him to use. In less than 10 minutes, I created my first assembly,
compiled in the appropriate units, and sent the DLL on its way. He
added the reference to his C# project and was able to use decrypt on
the first try.

Yea, it was a VCL.NET assembly, so he had to register two Borland
assemblies, but that's no different than how existing applications are
deployed, DLLs for reports, add-on modules, etc.

That was the first time I put Delphi 8 to real world use, and it went
well. :-)