I am responsible for porting a Delphi 2007 application to C# and have absolutely no experience with Delphi. I am wondering what is the difference between the two Indy versions Delphi includes - Indy 9 and Indy 10. At this point I don't even know what an Indy is. Can someone help me out? Are they just different versions of the Delphi Library? What are the implications of using one or the other?
Thanks!
Indy is short for Internet Direct, an open-source library for doing networking. It's most commonly used for doing internet-related things, like sending emails and whatnot.
If you're porting from a legacy (say, Delphi 7) application that uses Indy 8 or 9, you'll find using Indy 9 in Delphi 2007 will be an easier port. If you don't care, use Indy 10, as it's got many significant improvements to the library, and there are also some big architectural changes.