Nick Hodges presents fourteen compelling reasons to upgrade to BDS 2006, highlighting improvements in stability, speed, and user experience compared to D2005. Key features include enhanced VCL components, new tools, and robust debugging options, alongside bundled products to facilitate development. The document emphasizes both major enhancements and subtle improvements that contribute to a more efficient programming environment.

1. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS 2006 Oregon Delphi User Group November 2006

2. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #1 - QUALITY! Some can argue… Compare with D2005! Stable and Fast

3. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #2 - ECO in Pro Version But just the basics (see feature matrix ) ECO III is really easy: 9-year old demonstrates New: State Machines!

4. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #3 – Live Templates Let Nick show you: Video

5. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #4 – VCL Designer Guidelines Waaaaay Cool! But only for Win32  No more pixel counting Much faster form building More consistency in the user interface

6. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #5 – Four Languages, Four Personalities OK, nothing much new here… Delphi for Win32 Delphi for .NET C++ Builder C# Pre-built personalities nice

7. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #6 – New VCL Features Margins Padding Alignment

8. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #7 – New VCL Components TGridPanel TFlowPanel TCategoryButtons

9. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #8 – Refactorings Greatly enhanced from D2005 Nick’s tutorial

10. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #9 – History Tab New in D2005 Braver programming! Better than undo Between version check-ins

11. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #10 – Bundled Products Castalia CodeHealer BeyondCompare BuilderBooster (C++)

12. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #11 – Two-Way Modeling Together UML Modeling Changed code updates diagram!

13. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #12 – Cool New Tool Palette Some like it, some don’t Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+P? Lotsa options

14. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #13 – Expandable Debugger Hints Hierarchical view of inspected items Expand/collapse view—both in debug windows and in pop-up hints

15. Nick Hodges' Fourteen Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to BDS2006 #14 – It’s the little things that count… Structure Pane Pinnable and dockable windows Built-in HTML editor Data Explorer window SDI (Single Document Interface) with MDI option David’s Favorite: Error Insight!