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November 2010
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Using CDO to write to Exchange from a Windows Service
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– Not strictly a Delphi-post this one, but still a programming issue nonetheless. We have several Windows Services that have the ability to add an entry to people's Outlook Calendars or Task Lists. This cannot be done using Outlook Automation, because that requires Outlook to be accessible to run ...
September 2010
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Open Letter to Digital Metaphors
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– I am currently rewriting our standard Crystal Reports (over 250) in ReportBuilder, so that we can standardise on one report writer. I have been so impressed by ReportBuilder during this development process that I felt compelled to write to Digital Metaphors and let them know. I just wanted to drop ...
August 2010
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Still alive and still on Delphi 6
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– I hadn't realised that my last post was January, 6 months has just disappeared. 6 being the magic number, in that we still have not found the time to stop development on our products in order to migrate up to Delphi 2009 that we bought a while back. Since then, Delphi 2010 passed me by without a ...
January 2010
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (v) revisited
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– Well that was judicious timing (for once)! Just as we decided to take the plunge and do away with ODBCExpress in favour of dbGo, I had an email from Pieter Myburgh at Korbitec. In it, he stated that the management had rejected the proposal to make ODBCExpress open-source and instead have "end-of- ...
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The curious case of dead Delphi
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– You don't have to look very far for people asking the question "Is Delphi Dead?". StackOverflow had a recent question on it, and Delphi developer JamieI recently created a website to answer the question succinctly.OK, so it was a darling of the 90s and these days it isn't as high profile as it used ...
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (v)
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– A new year and time to make a decision about how we are going to move our ten year old codebase from Delphi 6 up to Delphi 2009. If you've followed my other posts in this "road to Delphi 2009" thread then you'll know that I hit a stumbling block when migrating a third-party component, ODBCExpress. ...
December 2009
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The Register: Ten years of .NET - Did Microsoft deliver?
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– The always excellent Tim Anderson, writing for the always excellent The Register, has put together a nice article on the relative success and failure of .NET as a platform and as a Java-killer.I've made it clear in the past that I'm no fan of .NET and I don't see any clear benefit to our industry by ...
November 2009
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (iv)
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– So it has been a while since I last updated on my progress with the migration from Delphi 6 to Delphi 2009. There's a reason. I'm still on Delphi 6 and I've got nowhere fast with ODBCExpress!To be fair to its developer, Pieter Myburgh, it isn't his project anymore and he has been very good in ...
July 2009
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (iii)
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– Still calling this Part 1 (Act 3) as I'm not actively pushing anything forward until I've overcome the ODBCExpress hurdle. I've had some positive steps forward with this.I have been in regular contact with Pieter Myburg, its original author. Even though he is no longer actively developing it, he has ...
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1 (reprise)
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– So I haven't really got any further yet because I'm waiting to hear back from the author of ODBCExpress whether or not he will look to upgrade the packages for Delphi 2009. He's emailed to say he is "looking into it". From the newsgroup I can see I'm not the only one crossing my fingers.If he ...
June 2009
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The road to Delphi 2009 - Part 1
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– OK, so I started with the easy stuff. Installing third-party components.Raize Components - CheckTMS Component Pack - CheckReportBuilder Enterprise/Server - CheckOK, these were easy because they were designed for Delphi 2009.ODBCExpress - Oh. Well, according to its lead developer Pieter Myburg on ...
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Bit the bullet: Delphi 2009!
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– So, I finally bit the bullet and purchased a Delphi upgrade, to D2009. The offer was too tempting and I have started to become frustrated with being left too far behind with Delphi 6.Thanks to one of the distributors in the UK, Grey Matter, we got the D2009 upgrade for 20% off. This was a promotion ...
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Upgrading a major project to Delphi 2009
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– Lars Dybdahl has posted an excellent summary of his experience converting older Delphi projects to Delphi 2009. Very relevant to me and many Delphi users, I'm sure:Compas Pascal: Upgrading a major project to Delphi 2009: "g"
December 2008
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CodeRage 3
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– CodeRage 3 seems to have gone pretty well judging by those who were involved with it. I'm pleased, it's good that CodeGear/Embarcadero does this because it shows that they're focusing their mind on the developers (and possibly trying to showcase for potential new customers). There will always be an ...
August 2008
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Delphi 2009 Sneak Peek Videos
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– I've just watched Nick Hodges go through some of the VCL enhancements for Delphi 2009, and two things struck me. Firstly, I can't understand why the PasswordChar feature on TEdit was being demonstrated; I was running Delphi 6 side-by-side with the video, and was changing this property with the ...
