delphi 8 (borland developer studio 2.0), released december 2003, was a .net-only release that compiled delphi object pascal code into .net cil; the ide was rewritten for this purpose. the ide changed to a docked interface (called "galileo") similar to microsoft's visual studio.net. delphi 8 was highly criticized for its low quality and its inability to create native applications (win32 api/x86 code). the inability to generate native applications is only applicable to this release; the capability would be restored in the next release.