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VCL Scanner - VCL Class Usage Survey

As we take the Borland Visual Component Library (VCL) into the future, it is our goal to both continue to enhance the VCL with the latest Windows features and to make sure that it remains as easy as possible to migrate today's VCL applications to Linux via Borland CLX (pronounced "clicks"). CLX is our new component library for cross-platform development.  It will be introduced in the forthcoming Kylix project (the Linux version of Delphi) as well as in the next release of Delphi for Windows.  Our goal with CLX is to ensure that many of today's Delphi and C++Builder Windows applications will quickly become the Linux applications of tomorrow.

VCL Scanner is a utility and survey project that will aid the Borland RAD Tools development team in the Kylix and Delphi 6 development cycle and beta process. The VCL Scanner will generate a VCL class usage report based on the Delphi and C++Builder executables and packages it finds on your Windows system.  Most importantly, it will allow you to send the report back to Borland. 

As a dedicated Delphi or C++Builder developer, your homework assignment - so to speak - is to generate a class usage report with VCL Scanner and to send the report back to the development team. While most will be eager to send the development team their feedback, we understand that some may be apprehensive to run a "scanner" on their systems. With this in mind we have taken great care to ensure that this utility and the generated reports are both benign and anonymous (though you do have the option of turning anonymity off). The utility is read-only and does not send any information that could be used to identify applications or users unless you instruct it to do so. Reports are also never transmitted back to us until you have first had a chance to see exactly what will be sent.  We've even included the source code to VCL Scanner so that you that you can feel secure knowing that VCL Scanner isn't doing anything unkind to your PC or looking at anything you wouldn't want it to.  

Feel free to use VCL Scanner on its own outside of its intended survey purposes for whatever reasons you choose. If anything, it's a strangely fun utility to run just to see which applications installed on your system are developed in Delphi or C++Builder.  If you find any interesting applications written in Delphi or C++Builder please let us know about them by sending email to our product marketing team (mailto:[e-mail]).  We want the rest of the world to know about the success stories as well.
 
Have fun and thanks for being a Borland developer!

Note: The VCL scanner is unsupported. However, if you do have trouble running VCL Scanner you can send an email or feedback to [e-mail]