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VOTEUnicode tip #11 – Stringchecks Off
Bob Swart
A final Unicode tip concerns the compatibility of UnicodeStrings between Delphi and C++Builder. The UnicodeString in Delphi can containUnicode or ANSI data at any given time, and in order to ensure that C++Builder code can… … Read more
16 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi, C++(Builder)
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Unicode tip #10 – ANSI vs. Unicode UpperCase
Bob Swart
There’s an overloaded version of function UpperCase in the SysUtils unit as well as the AnsiStrings unit. … Read more
16 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Delphi 2009 Essentials in Stockholm, Sweden
Bob Swart
From Monday, Feb 23rd until Wednesday Feb 25th, 2008, I’ll be in Stockholm, Sweden, for another 3-day RAD Studio 2009 Essentials seminar (spoken in English) covering Delphi topics like the IDE and Language enhancements (Generics,… … Read more
16 years ago in Conferences / Events, Windows 10, Books / Magazines, Unicode, ASP.NET, Delphi, XML, SOAP & Web Services
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Delphi 2009 Essentials in Stockholm, Sweden
Bob Swart
From Monday, Feb 23rd until Wednesday Feb 25th, 2008, I’ll be in Stockholm, Sweden, for another 3-day RAD Studio 2009 Essentials seminar (spoken in English) covering Delphi topics like the IDE and Language enhancements (Generics,… … Read more
16 years ago in Conferences / Events, Windows 10, Books / Magazines, Unicode, ASP.NET, Delphi, XML, SOAP & Web Services
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My CodeRage III session replays
Bob Swart
Apart from the source code for my CodeRage III sessions, you can now also view the replays from my own server (100 Mbps fibre-optic connection). … Read more
16 years ago in Conferences / Events, Delphi, XML, SOAP & Web Services
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Unicode tip #8 – Integer and Float To AnsiString
Bob Swart
SysUtils defines the well-known IntToStr and FloatToStr, which return a Unicode String – but not an AnsiString. … Read more
16 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #7 – Unicode Text File Output
Bob Swart
The TextFile of Delphi 2009 can only write AnsiStrings and not Unicode Strings, which means we can only write ANSI data to text files, right? Wrong! Since UTF8Strings are also (special) AnsiStrings, we can still… … Read more
16 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Delphi 2009 Generics and Anonymous Methods
Bob Swart
Delphi 2009 introduces Generics and Anonymous Methods for Win32, and I’ve written some examples that not only demonstrate how to use Generics (specifically Generic Methods) and Anonymous Methods these features separately, but also how we… … Read more
16 years ago in Books / Magazines, Delphi
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Unicode tip #6 – Character Literals
Bob Swart
Character literals between #128 and #255 – the so-called high ASCII values – have a specific value depending on the ANSI code page. … Read more
16 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 Trial with Delphi Prism ISO
Bob Swart
You can now download the CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 Trial with Delphi Prism ISO (at 1.4 GB), and request a trial key, in order to install a 14-day trial edition of the Delphi Prism portion… … Read more
16 years ago in .NET, Conferences / Events, ASP.NET, CodeGear, Delphi
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Unicode tip #5 – FillChar and Fill/ZeroMemory
Bob Swart
The FillChar routine fills a string or buffer with bytes, which means that we need to multiply the length of the string with the size of the string elements in order to fill the complete… … Read more
16 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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