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Compiling, Building, and Running Applications 

This section describes essential information about compiling, building, and running applications. As of 2007, the new build engine in the IDE is MSBuild.exe. You can now create and manage build configurations, named option sets, and targets files that enhance your ability to control your development environment. 

Debugging Applications 

Many of the same techniques are used for debugging applications in different environments. RAD Studio provides an integrated debugging environment that enables you to debug Win32 applications. In addition, you can use the debugger to debug an application running on a remote machine that does not have RAD Studio installed. 

General Concepts 

This section provides an overview of basic concepts. 

Getting Started 

The RAD Studio integrated development environment (IDE) provides many tools and features to help you build powerful applications quickly. Not all features and tools are available in all editions of RAD Studio. For a list of features and tools included in your edition, refer to the feature matrix on http://www.codegear.com. 

Testing Applications 

Unit testing is an integral part of developing reliable applications. The following topics discuss unit testing features included in RAD Studio. 

UML Modeling 

This section describes the UML modeling features.
The product version you have determines which UML modeling features are available. 

Refactoring Applications 

Refactoring is a technique you can use to restructure and modify your code in such a way that the intended behavior of your code stays the same. RAD Studio provides a number of refactoring features that allow you to streamline, simplify, and improve both performance and readability of your application code.