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Embarcadero help indicates that the XML Data Binding Wizard is also in XE2 (as well as XE and earlier) but I cannot see it (on two machines). Has it moved? Did it not get into XE2 yet? Is there a file I can add to install it? I can continue to generate classes using XE but I was about to unistall XE.....!

Brian Frost
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    Found it. XE2 hides it completely unless you have a project open - XE simply greyed it. – Brian Frost Nov 10 '11 at 12:10
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    Jesus. What wrong with the new Delphi version. I searched A LOT for that menu! Why they hide it this way? Thanks for posting this info here! – Gabriel Mar 18 '16 at 12:13

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It's still there. You have to have an open project first. Try this:

  1. File->New->VCL Forms Application - Delphi
  2. File->New->Other-XML - you'll see XML Data Binding.

It pretty much makes sense; you can't do much with an XML Data Binding without a project to use it.

Ken White
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    True, but the XE behavior of showing the item grayed out makes more sense, because at least you know it's there. – Johan Nov 10 '11 at 14:22
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    Accepted anyway for your kind typing :-) – Brian Frost Nov 10 '11 at 17:30
  • Brian, thanks. :) @Johan, I didn't start XE to check, as it wasn't what the question asked about; however, disabling an item without giving the user an explanation of how to enable it is considered bad UI design by some peoople, so the decision to leave it out might be based on that concept. But I don't work for EMBT, so I can't say one way or the other. :) – Ken White Nov 10 '11 at 18:58
  • Sorry Ken didn't mean to upset you. – Johan Nov 10 '11 at 20:36
  • @Johan, I'm not upset. I'm just not sure why you were criticizing my answer when all I did was explain where and how to find what Brian was trying to find. :) – Ken White Nov 10 '11 at 22:36