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March 2009
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Embarcadero announces “Instant-On” – Eliminating the Installation Process for Delphi (and all other products)
Olaf Monien
– Embarcadero is apparently in the process of blowing out an e-mail blast, which “silently” announces Instant-On(TM), a mechanism which basically eliminates the installation process. You get one executable per product, run it and it will, well, “run”. No more tedious installation procedure. As ...
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May 13/16, 2009: IntraWeb/VCL for the Web Workshop in San Jose (DelphiLive!)
Olaf Monien
– The just announced DelphiLive! conference in San Jose will have two tutorial/workshop days. I will offer a full day workshop on IntraWeb/VCL for the Web. To register, you need to sign up for one of the “tutorial days” at DelphiLive! Registration The exact date (Wed or Sat) will be announced ...
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May 13/16, 2009: Delphi Prism Workshop in San Jose (DelphiLive!)
Olaf Monien
– The just announced DelphiLive! conference in San Jose will have two tutorial/workshop days. In cooperation with Holger Flick I will offer a full day workshop on Delphi Prism – the new Delphi for .NET development environment. To register, you need to sign up for one of the “tutorial days” at ...
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DelphiLive! 2009 - The Delphi Developer Conference!
Olaf Monien
– After quite a while there will be a face-to-face Delphi Developer conference in the US again. The conference is organized by S&S Media and supported by Embarcadero/CodeGear. We have got all the top speakers, including Cary Jensson, Marco Cantu and Ray Konopka. Many (most?) members of Delphi ...
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Polymorphic LINQ Queries
Olaf Monien
– Recently I came across the question how to build a special kind of polymorphic query, that returns only one specific member type out of many different types in a given source. Lets assume these example class definitions (all examples given in Delphi Prism syntax – the idea applies to other .NET ...
February 2009
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BAE.dll – Google’s Browser Address Error Redirector
Olaf Monien
– Yesterday I found a suspicious directory on my system: c:\program files\Google BAE It had a BAE.dll and two batch files apparently for the purpose of (un-)installing that DLL: regsvr32 /s BAE.dll Some Anti-Virus programs mark this file as “bad”, and mention for example “Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]”. ...
January 2009
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DelphiLive! 2009 – Call For Papers
Olaf Monien
– We got some delays, because two team members got sick over the last week – but finally here are the details for the Call For Papers: With the greatest pleasure S&S Media announces today: Delphi Live! – The Delphi Developer Conference from May 13 to 15 2009 in San Jose - just around the corner of ...
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DelphiLive 2009 – Physical Delphi Conference in the US
Olaf Monien
– As a Advisory Board member I am proud to post this official pre-announcement for the next, long awaited physical Delphi conference. Where: San Jose, CA, USA When: May 13th – 16th 2009 Who: All Delphi developers, let it be Delphi Win 32, Delphi Prism or Delphi for PHP ones. We will try to get all the ...
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Logitech still causing Access Violation in Delphi 2009
Olaf Monien
– A while ago a couple of users started reporting odd Access Violations when running a Project in Delphi 2007 for the first time. It turned out that this was caused by some Logitech WebCam drivers. See Nick Hodges blog on this topic. To make it clear: it’s not just Delphi users reporting issues with ...
December 2008
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Implicit Fields and Inline Expressions in Delphi Prism Simplify Property Design
Olaf Monien
– In OOP, we are using Properties to be able to limit access to class members, or to have “calculated” values. In Delphi Native Pascal, a class with 3 properties may look like this: TEmployee = class(TPerson) private FHoursPerWeek: Double; FWeeklyRate: Double; FHourlyRate: Double; ...
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Delphi can even LINQ to SQL!
Olaf Monien
– As there is obviously still some uncertainty if Delphi Prism is really a fully fledged .NET development environment, I’m posting an example below to prove that Prism does allow you to LINQ to SQL: This is a “Customer” class definition with a manual mapping to a ...
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Delphi can do LINQ!
Olaf Monien
– There are a couple of people who have asked if LINQ can be used with the new Delphi .NET version aka Delphi Prism. The cool thing is that with Prism you can utilize all available .NET technologies. LINQ though, requires some additional compiler support - to allow for the “compilable query ...
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Enable Sync Editing in Delphi Prism
Olaf Monien
– Delphi Prism comes with a nice “Sync Editing” feature. Unfortunately it’s not enabled by default, because it relies on an external “DXCore” assembly, which is available as free download from DevExpress. This “Sync Edit” works for methods only currently, but it does that in a very intuitive way, you ...
November 2008
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Delphi Prism: All New Delphi for .NET Edition Has Been Released
Olaf Monien
– Apparently, CodeGear, a department of Embarcadero, has chosen Black Friday as release date for the all new .NET edition of Delphi: Delphi Prism Delphi Prism is basically a plugin for Visual Studio, which delivers the Pascal Language plus some exciting extra features to Microsoft’s .NET ...
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Free Camtasia Studio 3.0.2 for c’t Magazine Readers
Olaf Monien
– With CodeRage III, CodeGear’s Virtual Developer Conference (December 1-5, 2008), approaching, all speakers have to find a solution to pre-record their sessions. One way is to load a trial version of Camtasia Studio, but if you did that a while ago already, then you either have to purchase or find an ...
