Hallo Jud
 JM> One of the major new things in Delphi 3 seems to be Web stuff. If
 JM> you're not doing any of that (i.e. doing regular apps only), is it
 JM> worthwhile to upgrade from D2 to D3?
The most exciting news to me was COM-support and packages. Having worked with 
those for a couple of weeks now, I must say I found both quite buggy. Making 
COM and ActiveX controls, I get a lot of access violations and spontanious 
crashes of the IDE (Delphi closes up on me all together before I can save 
anything). DCOM does not work at all with Windows95 as a client and it stinks 
with an NT-to-NT setup. It's poorly documented, although the wizards do help 
a lot.
I still would say it's worth the trouble but if you're not desperate to dig 
in, I would wait for 3.01 which should be released sometime this year. Not 
that I heard any news saying so but I figure they still have some fixing to 
do at Borland.
The VCL has changed slightly, your may have to adapt some components. The 
help files are a lot better though, some goodies and features are really neat 
(like the "Code Insight" editor enhancement) and they seem serious about 
COM-interfaces, which I think is good.
Groeten, Martin.
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