Question

What is the need to use delphi prism instead of Visual studio;
i am a delphi programmer so i like object pascal but what else are that delphi prism have that other does not have

Answer 1

What do you mean by “Delphi Prism instead of Visual Studio“?! Delphi Prism is a pascal-flavor in .NET platform. Visual Studio is an IDE. Delphi Prism uses Visual Studio as its IDE. So when you code in Delphi Prism or debug your prism codes, you are doing it in Visual Studio, just as doing with C# or VB.NET.

.NET is supposed to support multiple programming languages and providing common types and libraries to all languages targeting it. Delphi Prism is just another .NET language. It has access to all the stuff that .NET provides to languages. It also has some distinct language features (refer to PRUZ post).

So you can use Delphi Prism when you want to code in Pascal for .NET platform, or if you really need any of its distinct language features in your .NET applications.

Of course Microsoft’s own languages (C#, VB.NET, F#) have little edge in .NET over third-party language providers:

• There are so many books and articles – including MSDN –
  written about MS languages, or written about .NET with C# or VB.NET sample codes (recently Delphi
  Prism added a tool to automatically
  convert C# code snippet to Delphi
  Prism code).
• New .NET features would be
  available first to Microsoft’s own
  languages first, and then to other
  languages, so if you need a really
  new .NET feature, you might have to
  wait a few months to have it in your
  favorite language.
• And, some IDE features like visual
  form designer for .NET compact
  edition are only provided for C#
  and VB.NET.