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A Google search on "delphi prism", "delphi prism resources" or "delphi prism code snippets" reveal almost no good sites at all are there any good programming site(s) with some good amount of code snippets and tutorials on Delphi Prism?

Thanks in advance!

Jim McKeeth
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@omair, you have you have basically five ways to obtain information about Delphi Prism

1) The official Info

2) Using the Blogs

3) as @jamiei suggest Translate the C# or VB .Net Code to Delphi Prism is not difficult, you can use the C# to Oxygene Tool or you can do it manually.

4) the books

5) Ask in StackOverflow

RRUZ
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  • Good round up of resources RRUZ. Although a few of those books will be slightly confusing to beginners because of the references to the now depreciated Delphi.NET? – jamiei Apr 28 '10 at 16:42
  • I have published a PDF courseware manual on Delphi Prism (covering Delphi Prism 2010 at this time, but it's planned to get updated to Delphi Prism XE after which I will also publish it as paperback on Lulu.com). See http://www.eBob42.com/courseware for details (note: if you purchase the Delphi Prixm Development Essentials PDF courseware manual you also get the Delphi XE Development Essentials PDF as a free bonus - plus all update of both courseware manuals). I have also published a number of Delphi Prism articles at http://www.drbob42.com/examines and for CodeRage. – Bob Swart Nov 18 '10 at 06:37
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Agreed, along with the Prism Documentation Wiki it's worth noting that the best resources for .NET code are nearly all composed of C# code snippet sites.

The RemObjects team have built a C# to Oxygene tool and have even integrated it into the IDE so you can copy C# code from sites such as CodeProject and the MSDN documentation and paste it directly as Delphi Prism code into the IDE.

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  • @jamei the C# to Oxygene tool integrated into the Delphi Prism IDE, will be available in the next official release of Delphi Prism. – RRUZ Apr 28 '10 at 16:26
  • @RRUZ I think it made it into the Delphi Prism 2010 February Release. If you bought RAD Studio 2010 with SA then I think you get the interim releases as included upgrades so 2010 customers may already have it. – jamiei Apr 28 '10 at 16:45
  • @Jamei, check the footer note of the link http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/2010/01/20/p818 `the “February” release will ship a bit later than February, this year, as we want to align it with the public release of Visual Studio 2010, which has been announced for April. Internally, we still refer to it as the “February Release”.` – RRUZ Apr 28 '10 at 16:51
  • @RRUZ I shall consider myself corrected, my advice is to get yourself onto the Beta pronto then. – jamiei Apr 28 '10 at 17:00
  • does C# to Oxygene tool converts c# to delphi 100% ? – Omair Iqbal Apr 28 '10 at 17:10
  • Yes, It converts to Delphi Prism. I've found it to be pretty effective but there are occasional problems so YMMV. – jamiei Apr 28 '10 at 17:19
  • @Omair The problems will arise more with language features. But most code you find inline should convert fine. – Jim McKeeth Apr 30 '10 at 00:27
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Prism was just a rebranding of the Oxygene compiler. If you search for Oxygene then you are more likely to find resources.

Jim McKeeth
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Best place I find is http://prismwiki.codegear.com/en/Main_Page

There's also the various CodeGear and RemObjects newsgroups.

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    Moved to http://wiki.oxygenelanguage.com/en/Main_Page, FTR, in case the fredirect will stop working at some stage in the future. – marc hoffman Apr 18 '13 at 18:05