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What components and IDE add-ins do you install with Delphi? [closed]

My list:

  • The Dev.Express Quantum grid: enhanced grid component: once you get the hang of this component, you can use it in all sorts of scenarios (at least I have)

  • Dev.Express Quantum Tree list: if you know the grid component, you can use this component as well (treelist and grid combined)

  • Dev.Express Express bars: menu bars and ribbons (which I don't use myself) fully configurable by the user without any code from the developer - cool and usable even in previous Delphi versions

  • CNPack - Delphi IDE enhancer: is a Free IDE Plug-in Tool Set for Delphi/C++ Builder/CodeGear RAD Studio to Improve Development Efficiency. One of the features (among tens of features) is a small form which attaches itself at the bottom left of any form you are designing, with buttons to left align, right align, center align etc ... your components on your form - check it out

  • HtmlViewer component: as the name suggest: an HTML viewing component in native Delphi, now free, but I have been using it for a lot of years now. I have written almost all of my reports in my programs using html and css and the HtmlViewer component. It's amazing what you can do with html and css as a reporting solution (and it's standard too).

I have a lot of other components too, but these are the ones I use in every project (from small ones to the biggest I have written).

By the way: I will certainly try out some others on this page. If it's good enough for other developers, it's good enough for me too.


  • Bergsoft components. I Would be lost without NextGrid and NextDBGrid (fastest grid implementation I came along)

  • Lately, I'm seriously considering to start coding with a Delphi framework, Delphi Spring Framework looks like a way to go.

Delphi Spring Framework is an international open source project, whose mission is to provide a robust infrastructure framework that will help Delphi developers build solid, flexible and extensible enterprise applications and class libraries based on the Embarcadero® Delphi® 2010 for Win32 platform.

Also it has a Dependency Injection container with 2 week build spawn

  • JEDI for Delphi with many wrappers for common dlls, also provides a robust VCL platform to develop

I always install TSmiley. I can't get along without it.


JEDI API Library & Security Code Library for sure but probably my answer couldn't be more subjective since I participate in both projects ;-) I find GExperts to be a must (can't live without it) and of course Virtual Treeview.


Noob, so I cannot hyperlink ;(

VirtualTreeView (Mike Lischke)
toolbar 2000 (Jordan Russel)
spTBXlib (Robert Lee) requires ToolBar 2000
DSPack (Henry Gourvest aka progdigy) DirectX/DirectShow library
JCL + JVCL (Jedi Project) made of every kind of stuff
Ararat Synapse (Lukas Gebauer) Socket library (smtp, ftp, http,...)
SevenZip.pas (Henry Gourvest) Wraps 7z.dll (The heart of 7-zip)
DragDrop Components (Angus Johnson & Anders Melander)
ATBinHex (Alexey Torgashin) file viewer with multiple mode (text, binary, hex, unicode, utf, Unicode Hex)
FastMM (Pierre le Riche) memory manager
GraphicEx (Mike Lischke) image library capable to open an impressive list of format, unfortunally, the dev seems to be stopped
Graphics32 (creator Alex A. Denisov. Now a team is involved) fast 32-bit graphics handling


The first tools I install are:

  1. Model Maker Code Explorer
  2. GExperts