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August 2008
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Delphi 2009 Compatible components
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– With the announcement and availability of Delphi 2009, it is time to think about your upgrade strategy. One of the most important issue is the availability of the third-party components that you use for the new compiler. CodeGear has a list with compatible third party tools and components, ...
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Delphi 2009 available!
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– As expected, today 25 august Delphi 2009, as well as C++ Builder, is available for purchase or upgrade. Some interesting links: The official Embarcadero press release The Delphi 2009 page What is new? Frequently asked questions Video: What is new in the Delphi 2009 IDE ...
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Delphi and C++ builder release dates announced
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– In this e-week article Embarcadero announced the release of Delphi and C++ Builder to be on 25 augustus 2008. No official press release on the CodeGear/Embarcadero website yet. Embarcadero Technologies, which acquired CodeGear from Borland, plans to deliver new releases of Delphi and C++Builder. ...
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Tiburon win32 only, speculating on the .NET plans
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– Nick Hodges laid out Tiburon in his blogpost Tiburon - All about native code. As it seems Tiburon will only be Win32, so no .NET personality. Other notes: - Delphi and C++ Builder will be two seperat products (Don't worry If you have SA you will get both) - Besides the known ...
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Tiburon Sneak peek preview videos
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– Tiburon, the next version of Delphi, is hitting the doorstep. Embarcadero, or CodeGear will publish sneak peek videos in the coming weeks about the new and enhanced features. What’s new in the VCL for Delphi and C++Builder 2009, is the first issue, which shows some new components that ...
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Some more about the Office UI ribbon license
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– Almost two years ago I blogged about the license that Microsoft has on the Office UI Ribbon, finding it a bit of a silly license. If you want to use the ribbon control you will have to sign a license with Microsoft. Frans Bouma takes it a bit further down the line with his The evil of the ...
July 2008
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The return of Winforms in Delphi for .NET, or not?
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– Marco Cantu, today had an interesting blogpost, where he quotes Michael Swindell, the brand new head of productmanagement at Embarcadero, on his feedback on another post about Delphi for .NET plans.A quote from Michael's feedback:"In the beginning with .NET we put most of our energy into ...
June 2008
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Users' Choice IDEs - 2008
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– Evans Data published their annual 'Users' Choice IDEs' survey. You can get a free copy of it here. In this survey IDE users rated several features/functions of their favorite IDE. So the report shows the satifatisory of users about their IDE. Delphi From the eight rated EDIs, ...
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Mixing Forms and Windows authentication in ASP.NET
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– In ASP.NET it is easy to set the prefered authentication method in the web.config file. For external websites this is set mostly to Forms authentication through a own Login.aspx. When you use Windows authentication the authentication is handled by Windows, and you will get a Windows logon window ...
May 2008
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EmbarraWhat?, Embarcedar, Embarcadero...
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– Well, not quite breaking news (anymore after one day), CodeGear is sold to Embarcadero Technologies. I have mixed feelings with this sell, at one hand it is great that CodeGear finally sails into a safe harbour on the other hand it is sad that the Borland brand link with development now is ...
April 2008
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Linq to SQL
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– Inside that other Development tool that I use, I found an interesting link to Luca Bolognese's blogpost about Linq to SQL. You really should watch the video where he shows how it works in C#. Linq to SQL is about accessing relational data with LINQ. (Language Integrated Query). I find ...
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Delphi roadmap update
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– The Delphi and C++ Roadmap has been updated. It contains only updates for the native side of the fence. According to Nick's blogpost a separate update is in the make for .NET. In short Tiburon is planned for second half 2008, focusing on: 1. Connectivity (Enhanced Datasnap) 2. ...
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Blaise Pascal Magazine
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– There is a new international magazine about Delphi and related languages! The magazine has it's root in the HCC (Hobby Computer Club) from the Netherlands. The Pascal Usergroup (PGG) section of this club offers for many years a magazine in ducth about Delphi languages for beginner, intermediate and ...
March 2008
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Tiburion: A smooth Unicode shift...
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– Nick Hodges talks about the Unicode Shift in the new coming Delphi release code name Tiburon.He talks about the (four) steps that were taken to get everything unicode compliant, which resulted in :1. A new compiler with new inherent UnicodeString type 2. A new RTL using new string type routines ...
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What is wrong with this code?
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– Code highlighting produced by Actipro CodeHighlighter (freeware)http://www.CodeHighlighter.com/-->unit Unit3;interfaceuses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, StdCtrls;type TForm3 = class(TForm) Button1: TButton; procedure ...
