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Ok, now that you know what Delphi 8 is (.Net) and what it is not (Win32), let's see some Delphi 8 action.

Tour of the Delphi 8 IDE
After you launch Delphi 8, the integrated development environment displays several tools and menus. The Welcome Page appears with a number of options and links to select from: open recent projects, find online Delphi examples, contact developers (BDN, newsgroups, etc), and access other information to make you more productive with Delphi for .Net.

The Delphi 8 for .NET visual designer surface lets you create graphical user interfaces by dragging and dropping components from the Tool Palette to a form. Using the designers, you can create Windows Forms, Web Forms, VCL Forms, and HTML pages.
The Object Inspector let's you view and change the design-time properties and events of selected components that are located in visual designer.

Delphi 8 Object Inspector and visual designer

Delphi 8 for .NET auto-generates much of your application code as soon as you begin a project. The code editor allows you to edit code or text, and it includes numerous features such as line numbering, intellisense, code outlining, syntax highlighting and code folding make your code easier to read and navigate.

Code editor

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