Using visual live bindings

There are many tools for developers on the market. What makes Delphi one of the most productive development environments is the Rapid Application Development paradigm, where you can use reusable components and very quickly assemble them together to create working applications. In Delphi, there is hardly a prototyping phase of the project. When you are building an app, it very quickly starts to look like the final product. Most applications work with data. The GUIs that we design typically display information coming from a database or a service in the cloud. In Delphi, you can preview the data at design time.

There are two visual frameworks in Delphi for building GUIs. There is the Visual Component Library (VCL), which is arguably the best library for building native applications for Windows. There is also the FireMonkey multi-device library for building cross-platform GUIs for all supported mobile and desktop operating systems. The VCL has a concept of...