Borland® C#Builder™
for the Microsoft® .NET Framework Technical Overview
Accelerate design-driven development with Borland® C#Builder,™
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a pure C# development solution for the Microsoft® .NET Framework
Designed to accelerate the application development lifecycle, Borland® C#Builder™ for the Microsoft® .NET Framework delivers a design-driven, pure C# development solution for .NET. Maintain design integrity throughout your development lifecycle: C#Builder is designed to improve team collaboration and enable integration of the modeling, development and runtime phases so you can deliver better software, faster. Offering technologies for flexible, highperformance support and integration with enterprise databases – as well as direct communication with CORBA® and J2EE™ technologies from your .NET applications – C#Builder is optimized for enterprise development. C#Builder helps boost the productivity of your development team, the quality of your .NET applications, and the return on your technology investment.
Visually model your application with Borland ECO, the powerful business-object runtime platform enabling a truly model-driven application design system for the .NET Framework.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS Accelerate the enterprise development lifecycle for .NET Borland® C#Builder™ for the Microsoft® .NET Framework is the standardsbased integration environment for Borland enterprise .NET products, enabling a complete application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. With C#Builder, enterprises now have the freedom to choose a development environment with support for and integration with other vendor ALM solutions. Improve the development lifecycle with the Borland® ECO™ model-driven framework C#Builder enables a smoother integration of the UML™ modeling environment development and runtime phases with Borland® Enterprise Core Objects (ECO™) for .NET to create a truly model-driven application design system, thereby maintaining the integrity of the design throughout the development lifecycle through to deployment. This powerful .NET business-object runtime platform allows your application to seamlessly import and export UML models between the C#Builder application and a variety of external modeling tools into C#Builder. From within the ECO platform, you can also visually create and edit the UML model simulatenously with the visual model designer, powered by Borland® Together® technology. Leverage high-performance enterprise database development for ADO.NET C#Builder offers enterprises the freedom to choose. Providing native support for a variety of major enterprise-class databases, development is faster, easier, and more flexible. To get developers up and running quickly, C#Builder Architect includes full developer editions and developer licenses for Borland InterBase,® Microsoft® SQL Server,™ Oracle,® and IBM® DB2.® Lower the costs of integration in mixed IT environments Build .NET applications that interoperate directly with Java™/J2EE™ and CORBA® applications and reduce your integration efforts and costs. C#Builder Architect includes a full developer license for creating C# applications for .NET that can communicate over IIOP with existing CORBA and J2EE infrastructures without the need for extra bridges, hubs, or translators; no extra programming knowledge is required.
C#BUILDER™ FOR THE MICROSOFT® .NET FRAMEWORK Accelerating model-powered development Visually create and edit the UML™ model with the model designer, powered by Borland® Together® technology, and import and export UML models between C#Builder™ applications and variety of popular modeling tools Borland® Enterprise Core Objects (ECO™) runtime platform provides an instant model-powered .NET enterprise architecture, and automatic object level capabilities such as persistence, transactions, caching, and querying C# code visualization powered by Borland Together technology provides a live UML model view of your C# code at all times High-performance enterprise database development for ADO.NET Borland Data Provider (BDP) for ADO.NET with high-performance seamlessly "switchable" enterprise drivers for Borland InterBase®, Oracle® 9i, IBM® DB2, and Microsoft® SQL Server Complete developer editions of Microsoft SQL Server DE, Oracle 9i DE, IBM DB2 DE, and Borland InterBase DE Borland Data Provider (BDP) for ADO .NET high-performance "switchable" local database drivers for Borland InterBase and Microsoft DE Crystal Reports® for Borland C#Builder provides a fully embedded reporting solution Lowering integration costs in mixed IT environments Full developer license for creating C# .NET applications that interoperate directly and seamlessly over IIOP with existing CORBA® and J2EE™ infrastructures Integrated support for team collaboration C#Builder LiveTeam™ source control interface allows projects to be seamlessly checked in and checked out of popular change management systems including Borland StarTeam®, Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe,® Rational® ClearCase,® and Concurrent Versions System (CVS) Agile architecture, rapid development and improved operations with the Microsoft .NET framework Integrated C# compiler, debugger, editor with CodeInsight™ and ErrorInsight,™ and LiveTools such as Windows® Forms and Web Forms designer, Object Inspector and more Harness the full capabilities of the .NET SDK (shipping with C#Builder) to build XML Web Services, Web Forms, Windows Forms .NET GUI applications, Windows .NET CUI (Console User Interface) applications, services, utilities, and components Superior Web development with ASP.NET Powerful yet easy to use WYSIWYG HTML/WebForms designer for rapidly building rich ASP.NET Web applications Business-to-business integration with XML and Web Services Easily create ASP.NET XML Web Services and easily add XML Web Services which run on other machines to your .NET applications
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • Intel® Pentium® II-class processor, 450 MHz (900 MHz+ recommended) • Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Microsoft Windows XP,™ Professional Windows 2000, Professional Windows 2000 Server • 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended) • 250 MB hard disc space (compact installation) • 700 MB hard disc space (full installation) • CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive • SVGA or higher resolution monitor • Mouse or other pointing device
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