Story Category: Patterns
VOTEThe Curiously Recurring Generic Pattern
Erik van Bilsen
This curious little pattern can be helpful for certain problems that involve generics. We’ll look at what it is, and at a couple of use cases for it. What is it? The Curiously Recurring Generic… … Read more
3 years ago in Collections, Delphi, generics, Patterns, Tips & Tricks
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Custom Managed Records for Smart Pointers
Erik van Bilsen
In this 3rd part in (what turns out to be) a series about Custom Managed Records, we take a look at how they can be used to create smart pointers. About Smart Pointers But first… … Read more
5 years ago in Custom Managed Records, Foundation, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Automate Restorable Operations with Custom Managed Records
Erik van Bilsen
There are those common try..finally blocks that you write over and over again. For example entering and leaving a critical section to protect resources from multiple threads, or calling BeginUpdate and EndUpdate to efficiently bulk-update… … Read more
5 years ago in Custom Managed Records, Foundation, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Mapping Delphi Types to Indices at Compile Time
Erik van Bilsen
Say what now? In this post I will show you how you can use generics and class variables to generate unique incrementing indices for any Delphi type. For example, the Integer type could map to… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, generics, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Tricks, Types, Uncategorized
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Storing your Objects in a Database
Malcolm Groves
I’ve just begun a series of posts and accompanying videos over at the Code Partners site on using an Object Relational Mapper in Delphi. It starts out simple but over the series I want to… … Read more
9 years ago in Architecture, FireMonkey, LiveBindings, MVVM, Patterns
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