{"id":30,"date":"2006-05-31T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/2006\/05\/31\/where-to-download-delphi-personal-edition-version-7\/"},"modified":"2006-08-06T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T04:31:16","slug":"where-to-download-delphi-personal-edition-version-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/2006\/05\/31\/where-to-download-delphi-personal-edition-version-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to download Delphi Personal edition (version 7)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borland has previously offered a downloadable version of their Delphi IDE called the &#8220;Personal edition&#8221;. Delphi 2005 Personal Edition has only been offered through some magazines in Europe, but Delphi 7 can be downloaded from the Borland website, even though they no longer advertise it. Just follow this link:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borland.pl\/downloads\/delphi_7_personal\/Delphi7_Personal.zip\">http:\/\/www.borland.pl\/downloads\/delphi_7_personal\/Delphi7_Personal.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MD5 checksum should be: e762ab2c75be5cbd5534ee59bc78e605. The size is around 54 MB compressed and 148 uncompressed.<\/p>\n<p>To activate your installation of Delphi 7 Personal edition, just visit the Borland website and create an account. Then visit the download area and there you will a link to create an activation code for your Delphi 7 Personal Edition.<\/p>\n<p>Update: as of today (2006\/VIII\/05) the Borland&#8217;s Download area where you can get the activation code is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borland.com\/downloads\/download_delphi.html\">http:\/\/www.borland.com\/downloads\/download_delphi.html<\/a>. If you are still lost, look for a page like this:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Delphi7PE_downloadsite.png\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Delphi7PE_downloadsite.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"109\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Delphi7PE_downloadsite.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Delphi7PE_downloadsite.thumbnail.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After installing you can invoke the Registration Wizard to register your Delphi.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Delphi7PE_registration_wizard.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Delphi7PE_registration_wizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Delphi7PE_registration_wizard.jpg\" id=\"image31\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Delphi7PE_registration_wizard.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, read the license.txt file because it has a few restrictions. And keep in mind that no database VCL code is included with the Personal Edition.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Delphi7PE_splash.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Delphi7PE_splash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"87\" alt=\"Delphi7PE_splash.jpg\" id=\"image32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Delphi7PE_splash.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Delphi7PE_ide.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Delphi7PE_ide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Delphi7PE_ide.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Delphi7PE_ide.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Conclusions:<\/h3>\n<p>Getting Delphi 7 Personal Edition is easy, free and will allow you to explore the Delphi programming experience. But, the lack of database VCL support mean most third-party database components cannot be installed and you will miss some of the most important Delphi RAD features (the database support and data-aware controls).<\/p>\n<h3>Related links:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borland.com\">Borland<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borland.com\/delphi\/\">Borland&#8217;s Delphi<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borland_Delphi\">Delphi history in the wikipedia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delphi_programming_language\">Delphi features in the wikipedia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borland has previously offered a downloadable version of their Delphi IDE called the &#8220;Personal edition&#8221;. Delphi 2005 Personal Edition has only been offered through some magazines in Europe, but Delphi 7 can be downloaded from the Borland website, even though they no longer advertise it. Just follow this link:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariovaldez.net\/webapps\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}