Can Delphi and VStudio CoExist On A Machine?

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I was installing the 30-day trial version of Delphi 7, and I got a
message that it wanted to change a registry key concerning Just-In-Time
Debugging that currently indicates Visual Studio.

Can these two products be used on the same machine at the same time? I
am using VStudio for a project but I need to learn Delphi.

On a related note, does anyone know if the trial starts from the date of
the installation or is it set in the registration file they send you?
 
John Baker said:
I was installing the 30-day trial version of Delphi 7, and I got a message
that it wanted to change a registry key concerning Just-In-Time Debugging
that currently indicates Visual Studio.
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You can ignore this warning.
Can these two products be used on the same machine at the same time? I am
using VStudio for a project but I need to learn Delphi.
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You can use both on the same machine.
On a related note, does anyone know if the trial starts from the date of
the installation or is it set in the registration file they send you?
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As far i remember, it was on the registration file.

(^_^) Happy coding!
Massuda
 
John said:
I was installing the 30-day trial version of Delphi 7, and I got a
message that it wanted to change a registry key concerning Just-In-Time
Debugging that currently indicates Visual Studio.

Can these two products be used on the same machine at the same time?
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Of course. But only one of them may be registered as the debugger that
starts up when a program crashes. I've never found Delphi to be useful
for that, mainly because the programs that crash aren't the ones that I
could use Delphi to fix. If you find Visual Studio useful for that, then
go ahead and leave VS as your debugger.
On a related note, does anyone know if the trial starts from the date of
the installation or is it set in the registration file they send you?
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If no one here can give you an answer, then you can also ask on the
borland.public.install.delphi newsgroup on forums.borland.com (not on
your ISP's news server); that's where Borland provides free installation
support.
 
John,
Can these two products be used on the same machine at the same time? I
am using VStudio for a project but I need to learn Delphi.
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Yes the two products can coexist. The registry key about which you are
being prompted is for the JIT debugger. Delphi prompts before changing this
value, if it is not pointing to the Borland debugger. You can always safely
answer yes to this prompt, because Visual Studio just changes it back
(without a prompt) when it starts.
Since only one JIT debugger can be active at the same time, what you
cannot do is debug in both Delphi and VS simultaneously.

PC
 
i was curious, and wanted to post this idea, could a small application be
built that is triggered after the crash asking which debugger should be run,
and then flow be passed to the specified debugger? (perhaps this is a noob
question, but it was something that sounded logical to me
 
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