What is the best set of tools to develop Win32 Delphi applications? [closed]

Answer 1

A lot of good suggestions so far.

I would add the following

GExperts - IDE Integrated tools www.gexperts.org

ModelMaker Code Explorer - Great for additional refactoring amongst many other things http://www.modelmakertools.com/

CodeSite - Great debugging tool http://www.raize.com/DevTools/CodeSite/Default.asp

VirtualTreeview - Good Free Tree component once you get your head around how it works http://www.delphi-gems.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=38

I have to agree that FinalBuilder and MadExcept are both essentials as far as I am concerned.

There are also many great component suites around, TMS, DevExpress, etc..

Answer 2

Concerning Unit Testing, there is now a DUnit2 project.

It supports Delphi 2009 and brings some improvements over DUnit.

Edit

Just found another project, DUnitLite with extended syntax over DUnit.

Answer 3

JEDI JVCL an JCL from Sourceforge.net

Answer 4

CodeSite - great debugging tool, highly configurable

[yes, I am repeating some, but I think the idea was to put one in each post and let the good ones float up]

Answer 5

I don't yet have the ability to add "comments", so I'm adding this as an answer: it was suggested by Joel Spolsky that such questions would be best phrased as "one tool per answer please" - this would allow voting on individual development tools, thus is more likely to give you a list, in order of popularity, of the best tools to have.