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Delphi: Embarcadero Summer School lesson 6 Q&A (Powerful multi-tier...
Lesson 6 of the Embarcadero Mobile Development Summer School was titled Powerful multi-tier applications with DataSnap. Download of the video will be at streaming.embarcadero.com/summerschool2013. The...
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Reminiscence of the past: Delphi I/O error 131
I was called by a client that didn’t want to do maintenance on an old Delphi application, but wanted to get dir of an I/O Error 131: I/O Error 131: ERROR_NEGATIVE_SEEK MessageText: An attempt was made...
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delphi – Winrollback/DeepFreeze How these softwares work? – Stack Overflow
StackOverflow user opcOde wrote something interesting: Writing device drivers in delphi is hard to impossible. Here is an attempt to write drivers in delphi. It is funny to see the link pointing to the...
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.NET/C#: some starting posts on the `yield` keyword.
Peter Leslie Morris asked if Delphi already incorporates the `yield` keyword that C# had introduced in C# 2. Delphi doesn’t, but for the people interested what it does in C#: Basically `yield` is...
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Reminder to self: Delphi XE2 x64 debugging on Windows 8 is a no go, you get...
Just found out this the hard way, glad I found it soon which prevented me from doing like Ondrej Kelle – Google+ – Wasted a few hours with this….: Debugging 64 bit Delphi applications with Delphi XE2...
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When your Delphi XE Browsing Path has been destroyed Ken White to the rescue...
Something overwrote the Browsing Path of my Delphi XE installation. Symptoms: When debugging a project in “use debug DCUs” mode, the IDE cannot find RTL, VCL and Indy units. When you type `System` in a...
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reminiscence of the past: DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface)
While researching some other historic information about Delphi, I bumped into this thread: New DPMI host – delphi. If is a small thread describing what kinds and versions of DPMI hosts were available...
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Reminder to self: Unspecified Error in Delphi 2007 on Windows 8 (via: ACMer)
I might need this for some really old stuff, so here is a reminder: Unspecified Error in Delphi 2007 on Windows 8 | ACMer. It does work on Windows 7: Problem installing Delphi 2007 on Windows 7 64 Bit...
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Made it to the Embarcadero MVP Directory
It has been in the queue for a really long time. In fact, all started when chatting with Anders Ohlsson during the inception of the Embarcadero MVP program. But then the paper work (you know, the thing...
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Database Workbench 4.4.1 released (via: News @ Upscene Productions)
I like this Delphi program very much: it is one of the database tools with the widest support of back-ends, and friendliest user interface I know. Oh, and it is by a great Dutch company too: UpScene (:...
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Dutch stop of the RAD Studio in Action LIVE! event: September 7th, Leiden...
The Dutch stop of the RAD Studio In Action LIVE! tour is on September 7th. The venue location is via Holiday Inn Leiden Hotels: Haagse Schouwweg 10, 2332 KG Leiden, The Netherlands. It is close to the...
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Delphi: about 3 weeks ago, the XE5 branch was added to the RadStudioDemos...
Too bad the Sourceforge does not do stats pages any more, so you it is a lot harder to correlate project activity with potential release dates any more. But: about 3 weeks ago, the XE5 branch was added...
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Delphi: First try on an XSD for .groupproj files
Delphi introduced the .groupproj files to support MSBUILD. I couldn’t find an XSD for it, but need to do some fiddling with those files, so I created one. It’s not very detailed, I think it gets most...
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XSD/XML Schemas: resolving `Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in...
While working on my Delphi: First try on an XSD for .groupproj files, I bumped into an error `Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in this schema`. I added a targetNamespace attribute to the...
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More Delphi PDF manuals (via: Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: The One Manual...
Cape Cod Gunny found the PDF of the Delphi 7 Developer’s Guide (1100+ pages of good reading): Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: The One Manual Every Delphi Programmer Should Have!. There are in fact quite a...
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Prepping for Delphi XE5 beta blogging; PasCon / RAD Studio In Action discount
You will see a few Delphi XE5 pre-release related updates here soon. That is part of the Delphi XE5 beta blogging permission I have been given so I can show new Delphi XE5 features. Those updates are...
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Delphi Mobile (NEXTGEN) compiler: the risk of a changed TSymbolName;...
The NEXTGEN family of Delphi compilers for the Mobile platforms changed quite a bit of things. Most of it has been covered by various blogs posts. A non exhaustive list of ones I liked: Delphi Language...
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.NET/C#: Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few great MSDN magazine articles helping you...
Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few very nice MSDN magazine articles. Not all of them have ended up in the list at MSDN magazine, so here is a more complete list: C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and...
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Just filed Mercurial Bug 4043 – HG 2.7.x cannot convert a local file based...
Converting SVN repositories to HG isn’t always as straight forward as you want to. GExperts and GExperts-Formatter succeeded a while ago, but DSharp (a very nice library by Stefan Glienke) failed at...
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Some notes and links on DVCS (distributed version control systems)
I love DVCS for one single reason: merges are so much easier than with traditional version control systems, and you can use it in a disconnected way for almost 100% of the time. Coming from a...
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