delphi 2007 (delphi 11), the first version by codegear, was released on march 16, 2007. the win32 personality was released first, before the .net personality of delphi 2007 based on .net framework 2.0 was released as part of the codegear rad studio 2007 product. new features included support for msbuild and enhancements to the vcl for windows vista, but the c#builder feature was dropped in this release as sales were not as high as expected due to visual studio also offering c#. the windows form designer for delphi .net was also dropped in 2007 because it is based on part of the .net framework api, which microsoft had changed so drastically in .net 2.0 that updating the ide would have been a major undertaking. delphi 2007 also introduced dbx4 as the next version of dbexpress. for the first time delphi could be downloaded from the internet and activated with a license key. internationalized versions of delphi 2007 shipped simultaneously in english, french, german and japanese. rad studio 2007 (code named highlander), which includes .net and c++builder development, was released on september 5, 2007.