Archive for category: Delphi

Some historical information about Delphi – 17 years of innovation

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Today we are celebrating Delphi’s 17th birthday – and 17 years of continuous innovation for the Delphi language, run-time library, Visual Component Library (VCL) and the new FireMonkey next generation business application platform. To get here, was a long journey and lot of stuff happened. I remember in 1995 when I was developing an ERP with Paradox [...]

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FireMonkey 3D Text Editor

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If you want to learn more about FireMonkey 3D applications, join me on February 14th for the Delphi Birthday Celebration webinar. During this webinar we will have several Delphi experts and members of our R&D team showing great technologies using Delphi. I will be there as well showing something that I have been working for a [...]

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Android apps connected to Delphi DataSnap Server

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On the following video I’m showing how you can create DataSnap REST Server in Delphi, expose server methods and call them from an Android application. The video shows all the steps to create the server and the Android application. This is a short recap of the video. In order to have other platforms connecting and [...]

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It’s time to move on

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Hi everyone, there are certain things we cannot let go and need to be mention. During the whole year I try to keep my blog posts about software development and other related technologies, but this time I need to mention what is going on here at Embarcadero. Upgrading to Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2 or RAD [...]

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700 Delphi Developers at Delphi Conference Brazil

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We are so excited here in Brazil at Delphi Conference 2011, around 700 Delphi Developers learning about all the great stuffs in Delphi. David, Jim and I are here at the Conference talking with customers, community members and our partners.

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White Paper: Reasons to Migrate to Delphi XE2 | What you might have missed since Delphi 7

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If you still using Delphi 7 or past versions, I highly recommend you to reserve sometime to read this article. Delphi has really grown with some truly cool things getting added in the time since the Delphi 7. This article gives a few good reasons to migrate, along with an overview of all the new [...]

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CopyReaderToClientDataSet, Blob and the message “Feature not implemented”

If you have used the method TDBXDataSetReader.CopyReaderToClientDataSet, you probably came across with the message “Feature not implemented”, this exception occurs because the method CopyReaderToClientDataSet can’t copy Blob fields from the DBXReader to the ClientDataSet. This is no longer a problem, Delphi XE2 Update 2 changed this behavior and now supports Blob fields when using the CopyReaderToClientDataSet method. [...]

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Connecting to PostgreSQL through dbExpress ODBC driver

Delphi XE2 and C + + Builder XE2  introduce the new dbExpress ODBC driver, which enable FireMonkey and VCL applications to connect to any database that provides a ODBC driver. In order to show how it works, I created a FireMonkey project sample that connect to a PostgreSQL database. As first step, you must install the PostgreSQL ODBC driver [...]

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Update 2 for Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2 and RadPHP XE2 available

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The Update 2 for the XE2 release of Delphi, C++Builder and RadPHP are available on the following links. You can download Update 2 for Delphi and C++Builder through the “Check for Updates” option. RAD Studio XE2 Update 2 Update 2 for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE2 - http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/28597 Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2 ISO (includes [...]

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Creating XML files with Delphi and FireMonkey on Mac

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I got some questions about how to manipulate XML files in FireMonkey applications when running on Mac. One of the solution for that is to use the Mac API (Cocoa), there are several class and different ways to work with XML on Mac, in this post I’m going to show one way to create an [...]

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