Today the mailman brought the 100th issue of the Delphi Magazine. I had been a subscriber for quite a lot of years, but last year my subscription got sacrificed due to changing activities. But I still care about Delphi (mag) and felt a little guilty when I got my celebration copy. It contains a nice story on the history of Delphi and a good review of Delphi for .NET. The latter mentions an unique D8 trick : you can make calls to Delphi managed code from other unmanaged code, a kind of reverse P-invoke. The reviewer raves about it but I'm not sure. Besides all kind of (security) questions I miss mentioning the fact that you can call .NET code using COM. From any language, including something as subtle as VBscript. You have to decorate your assemblies and classes for COM -interop, which is good. As a developer you have (far more) control of what is being done with your code, any code just calling in scares me. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
blog on,
Peter