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September 2010
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t_str() has been deprecated
David Dean
– Sometimes, when you try to make things easier, you end up making things more difficult. It happens everywhere, but in sofware, we seem to be quite prone to it. The transition of the VCL to Unicode presented a number of challenges for C++Builder users. We tried to make this easier by introducing ...
August 2010
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C++Builder XE Delphi compatibility improvements
David Dean
– If you caught this week’s sneak preview video for RAD Studio XE, you’ll have seen that C++Builder XE is the first release to fully support creating DataSnap servers. This is possible because we made some changes under the hood of the C++ compiler to improve compatibility with Delphi. I ...
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QC stats… Again
David Dean
– I keep hearing comments that QC isn’t effective, has too many old reports, it doesn’t get results. That just isn’t true: Delphi C++ 8/9/2010 2163 43 1/19/2009 3249 88 10/10/2007 4008 107 We get about 80 new reports every week, so that means we’ve handled over 7500 ...
November 2009
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C++Builder 2010 Boost support (Update)
David Dean
– Today’s update includes welcome news for some. circular_buffer and pool now pass 100% Serialization has been added back to the list of supported libraries. There have been big improvements in thread and date_time The full rundown follows: The following compile and pass boost’s regression suite 100% ...
September 2009
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C++Builder 2010 Boost support
David Dean
– C++Builder 2010 is the second release to ship with portions of the boost project. We are only shipping a subset of these libraries. The following compile and pass boost’s regression suite 100% and are included in C++Builder 2010: algorithm/minmax algorithm/string any array crc disjoint_sets format ...
August 2009
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Riverblade announces support for C++Builder in LintProject Professional
David Dean
– In a blog post, Riverblade has announced support for BCB5 though CBuilder 2009. This is exciting because it makes it much easier to use PC-Lint for C++Builder users. If you aren't familiar with PC-Lint, it is a popular static code analysis tool for C and C++. P.S. The format for project files won't ...
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C++Builder 2010 and the new Class Explorer
David Dean
– The most requested feature for C++ Builder is for the Class Explorer. You can see the QC here: QC23836. I am pleased to announce that this feature is going to be available in Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 and C++Builder 2010. It's been rewritten from scratch to have good performance and a ...
February 2009
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What is an Internal Compiler Error?
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– The documentation team recently asked me to look over a help topic about Internal Compiler Errors. The content included no information for C++ users, so I wrote this quick draft. I hope they'll do a better job than I did, but since this topic comes up often enough in the ...
January 2009
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Call for sysops [Update]
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– The QC stats link (which I posted in this earlier entry asking for sysop volunteers) isn't working, so I thought I'd update it with a manual query: Delphi Delphi Prism C++ 1/19/2008 3249 0 88 10/10/2007 4008 N/A 107 I don't have a reliable method of verifying this, but when I first ...
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Type Traits
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– One of the newest features we've implemented in C++Builder 2009 seems to have been overlooked. I've mentioned it in the forums a few times, but it seems that this is surprising news to many folks. Type trait functions are intrinsic functions that accept a type at compile time and deliver a ...
April 2008
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Boost Conference
David Dean
– Alisdair and I will be attending the Boost conference next week. I hope to use the opportunity to evangelize for our compiler and also to show off some of the new C++0x features that we've been implementing for Tiburón. I also hope it will give me some time to finally ...
November 2007
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Anniversary
David Dean
– Chris Bensen beat me to it: http://chrisbensen.blogspot.com/2007/11/codegear-aniversary.html By a staggering coincidence yesterday marked my first year at this job. (Which means I had only been a Borland employee for a single day when CodeGear was announced.)
October 2007
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Call for sysops
David Dean
– Why is CodeGear looking for Quality Central sysops? As of 10/10/07 17:24 PDT, These are the number of reports in Quality Central with a status of "Reported": Delphi Delphi.Net C++ C# 4008 614 157 107 according to the QC stats here: http://qc.codegear.com/stats/ 82 bug reports have come in ...
May 2007
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C++Builder 2007 Features - New Dinkumware and iterator debugging
David Dean
– C++Builder 2007 includes the newest dinkumware runtime libraries. (v5.01) This should bring a bunch of fixes, but more interesting is the new feature of iterator debugging. This will help you to detect when you are using iterators incorrectly.
February 2007
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BCB 6 Help files are now available for download
David Dean
– The following article tells you how to get the help files which were included with Borland C++ Builder 6 http://dn.codegear.com/article/34064
