Borland Resource Workshop May 2026

Then came . And for a generation of developers, it felt like magic. What Was Borland Resource Workshop? Released in the early 1990s as part of Borland’s C++ and Delphi ecosystems, Resource Workshop (often called RWS.EXE ) was a visual resource editor for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows applications (Windows 3.1 through Windows 95/NT).

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By Windows XP, Microsoft’s own resource tools had won by default. Here’s the surprising part: I still run Borland Resource Workshop in 2026 . Then came