title: Use Delphi / Object Pascal within Visual Studio IDE
body: <p><strong>Background:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I've been using Delphi since version 2, and since moving up to around v5/v6, I've never upgraded to get newer features - but instead to get around bugs in the IDE/compiler.  Today, I opened up a personal project that I've been working on occasionally for the past year and it wouldn't compile (having not been changed at all since last time).  Eventually it compiled but wouldn't run.........</p>
  
  <p>I've been using C# / visual studio quite a lot for work and quick'n'dirty projects and the only problems I've come across with C#/VS are limitations of the C# language itself.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The question:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Is there some way that I can edit my Delphi projects within Visual Studio and run/debug them from there, instead of having to use the Delphi IDE/debugger with all its numerous bugs?  I really don't want to have to upgrade Delphi again purely to get around Borland's heisenbugs.</p>
  
  <p>I saw some LGPL'd project to get Delphi into visual studio but it seemed to be dead as of 2007.  Likewise, I've seen Delphi .NET in visual studio, but some of my scientific code is heavily ASM optimised (SSE/FMA).</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively, is there a decent (and free/cheap) Delphi=>C++ / Delphi=>C# translator program around?  If I can just have my Delphi code translated to a Visual Studio language (give or take the occasional bit of ASM), that would probably suffice.</p>