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September 2006
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Avalon/WPF/.Net 3.0 RC1
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– Now that .Net v3.0 is coming closer and closer, it is time to take another look at making WPF applications. And I am using my favorite programming language Delphi, just to show that it can be done. First create a project which uses the following assemblies: Program Project1;uses ...
May 2006
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Avalon(WPF) in delphi
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– Just written a WPF-'Hello world' app in Delphi.It is not useful but nice to know it can be done. Let's hope that the Borland, devCo, the Tools company people will release preview version of the Delphi. Net 2.0 compiler which supports partial classes, then we can get to do some more ...
February 2006
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Font changes
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– What is the default font of a delphi form? Without checking I would have answered MS Sans Serif. And be wrong. The correct answer would be for delphi 1-7 MS Sans Serif and for delphi2005/2006 Tahoma, VCL.NET forms Tahoma again and Winforms uses MS Sans Serif. It turns out that the delphi2005/2006 ...
January 2006
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When nothing is not nothing
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– The company I work for makes several programs, and it is likely that a user has more than one of our programs. We strife to have all programs look and feel the same. There has been a lot of discussion but at last a standard was made an written down. One of the standard was that a ...
December 2005
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Delphi2006 FastMM tips
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– Some information about the new memory manager for dephi 2006, posted in the newgroups by Pierre le Riche. It is useful information and it cannot be found in the help. You have to set the global variable "ReportMemoryLeaksOnShutdown" to true if you want it to check for leaks on shutdown. I ...
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The Update Game
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– I have a new version of Delphi (or BDS), so it start the update game. Which component give problems updating, do we have to wait for the vendor, and do we have to pay for the update. Luckily after the 'demise' of turbo power the goal was to have the source code of all components ...
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Quote #4
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– Life is full of wonderful mysteries, but your code is not the place for them. -- Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers
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Quote #3
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– My top ten performance tips are: Measure, measure, measure, measure, measure, measure, measure, measure, emm, how many is that? 1,2,3... 8 measure and measure. Rico Mariani (PDC05) Great advise, I aways get annoyed when people make performance statements/predictions without ...
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DevCon 2005
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– For those of use who have not gone to the borland DevCon this year. Some of the papers and slides can be found here.There are even camtasia recordings of some sessions. The one I listened to 3142 Delphi Design patterns had lousy sound, probably from Marco walking away of his computer. Well ...
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Christmas comes early this year
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– A DHL guy was just at the door with my BDS2006 Architect.I was one of the prize winner from the 24-hours of Dexter. The package contains 7 CD's and one DVD. A nice touch is that a small note is added, which says that the C++ personality is technology preview and an update for C++ will be ...
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Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
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– A interesting list: Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming - (Lamont Adams, Builder.com | Sunday, July 14 2002) Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. The point is to find them early, before they make it into production. Fortunately, except for the few of us ...
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Still alive
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– I am ashamed that I have not posted anything for a really long time now.To rectify this I have made a new years resolution to strive to have one post a week for now one. I know that is is not yet January first but why wait.
July 2005
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24 hours BdnRadio
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– For more information and a schedule look here:http://www.nldelphi.com/Forum/showthread.php?p=174440#post174440
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Problems with streaming to Delphi.Net
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– Someday most of our development will be done using .NET. This day has not come yet and will come later than the hype has let us believe. But I have no doubt that .NET is the future of windows development. To prepare for this I have experimented with converting some applications and libraries from ...
June 2005
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TechEd2005
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– For those of you who have not gone to TechEd this year, Microsoft have put a lot of the presentation online. http://microsoft.sitestream.com/TechEd2005/ Let's hope borland will follow their example with the borcon this year. [UPDATED]Well the site does not seem to be open to all. But ...
