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January 2009
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TIOBE language of the year not Delphi
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– In october Jim Mckeeth reported that Delphi could well be the language of the year in the TIOBE Community language index. Unfortunately this has not happened despite the efforts of the Delphi community putting "Delphi programming" on webpages. In january Delphi is fallen slightly ...
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LINQ with Delphi Prism #2 : Deferred Execution
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– As said in this previous post Delphi Prism supports LINQ all the way so all the LINQ feature just work in Delphi Prism. Deferred Execution One of the key features of LINQ is Deferred Execution. That means that a LINQ query does not execute until data is demanded, for except by an ...
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LINQ with Delphi Prism #1 : Sequences
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– I have been digging into LINQ this christmas. LINQ is a cool way to query data, whether it is an array, a list or a remote datasource. LINQ is a new feature of C# 3.0 that comes with Visual Studio 2008, but guess what, Delphi Prism, also supports LINQ all the way. If you want to play/test ...
November 2008
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DevExpress will support Delphi Prism
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– Now that Delphi for .NET (now Delphi Prism) has become a Visual Studio plugin it is possible to use all the .NET components out there. DevExpress, which btw started as a Delphi shop, has a great component set called DXperience for ASP.NET and Winforms development. Until now they only supported ...
October 2008
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Delphi Prism, some first thoughts
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– Delphi Prism is announced in this Embarcadero press release. Delphi Prism is based on Oxygene from Remobjects, so I think you could say Delphi Prism is Remobject's Oxygene. Read Remobjects press release here.After five years of several solutions and directions, it looks like Delphi for .NET has ...
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Exploring anonymous methods
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– New in Delphi 2009 are anonymous methods. Anonymous methods are methods without a name, which are able to do something on local variables where they are implemented. In fact they are a reference to a method. Anonymous methods are a bit magic, at least they were to me, and hard to explain. A ...
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Round the table Podcast@Delphi.org
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– The 11th Episode on the the podcast @ delphi.org dicusses some interesting things like anonymous methods, Garbage Collection ("To Dispose() or not to Dispose() ) and the speed of the TStringbuilder. Great stuff! Enjoy!
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Speculating on .NET plans #3
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– Although there are not much details unveiled yet, Nick Hodges made some statements about a new CodeGear product/project/plan called Delphi Prism at the SDN Conference in the Netherlands.Marco Cantu was the first to blog about this statements, soon followed by Bob Swart, and Tim Anderson.But no ...
September 2008
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A simple Generic Dictionary: TDictionary
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– A new generic type in Delphi 2009 is TDictionary. TDictionary offers a way to store values based on a key into a list. TDictionary is declared as TDictionary<TKey, TValue>. TDictionary in fact is what a hashtable is in C#. It allows you to store/structure data based on any key type and any ...
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A simple Generic List: TList
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– Delphi 2009 has support for generics, and has 'built in' generic types like TList, TArrays etc. If you want to use them you must add Generics.Collections to your uses clause. Generic List: TList Suppose we want a list with persons representing the TPerson class: Code ...
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"Cast on News" episode at Delphi.org
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– Last Friday I had a really fun experience, because Jim McKeeth invited me to be on the sixth episode on The Podcast at Delphi.org - "Cast on News." Also invited were marc hoffman from Remobjects, and Jolyon Smith from the Te Waka o Delphi blog. Together with host Jim McKeeth we ...
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Those tiny little details...
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– It are the tiny little details that makes a new release so interesting.Take for instance the code completion popup window of Delphi 2009, it now shows deprecated functions and properties in the color dark gray.
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Delphi 2009 very first impressions
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– Today the SA announcements finally hit the doorstep. Here are some very first impressions:1. InstallationInstallation improved a lot! Installing Delphi 2009, so not C++ Builder, only took 13 minutes. The installation of the documentation, which is a separate install took about 17 minutes.2. First ...
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Delphi a secret weapon..........
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– Nice article by Tim Anderson: Delphi: a secret weapon for Windows developers Don't keep it a secret! ;-)
August 2008
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Speculating on .NET plans #2
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– Jim McKeeth asks himself, and us, in this blogpost what we think about the upcoming .NET roadmap. Jim quotes, from his podcast with Nick Hodges, which I will quote here again: Historically one of our strong .NET stories has been close compatibility with the .NET and Win32 compilers. But ...
