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VOTESpeaking at Italian Delphi Day 2022
Marco Cantu
In two weeks, I’ll be giving a couple of sessions at the (online) Italian Delphi Day event, organized by Wintech Italia. This year the Italian Delphi Day event (one of the longest running yearly Delphi… … Read more
2 years ago in News
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The VCL LockDrawing method in TWinControl
Marco Cantu
One of the features added to the VCL library in Delphi 11 is the ability to handle Windows WM_SETREDRAW message easily with two specific methods added to the TWinControl class: LockDrawing and UnlockDrawing I was… … Read more
2 years ago in News
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RAD Studio 11.1 Alexandria Patch 1 Available
Marco Cantu
Today Embarcadero released a patch for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 11.1 Alexandria. The patch addresses a few relevant issues in the most recent release and is available to active update subscription customers in the… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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RAD Studio 11.1 and Windows PE Security Flags
Marco Cantu
Delphi and C++Builder in 11.1 enable by default a number of PE security flags for Windows applications, some of which were already available, but a bit hidden. Delphi has long had some support for ASLR… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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Announcing the Availability of RAD Studio 11.1 Alexandria
Marco Cantu
Embarcadero is pleased to announce the release of RAD Studio 11 Alexandria Release 1, also known as RAD Studio 11.1, along with Delphi 11.1 and C++Builder 11.1. The RAD Studio 11.1 Alexandria release enhances the… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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The C++Builder 25th Anniversary: Historical Article on C++ Builder Language Extensions
Marco Cantu
To help celebrating C++Builder 25th anniversary, I’m republishing a very old article of mine on the C++ language extensions introduced by Borland back then. As you have probably heard, soon after Delphi’s 27th birthday, C++… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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Delphi WinUI 3 Demo
Marco Cantu
Yesterday, on Delphi’s 27th anniversary Embarcadero released a WinUI 3 demo that I presented in the anniversary webinar. Here is the official announcement along with some more technical information. The demo is available in GetIt…. … Read more
3 years ago in News
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Delphi’s 27th Anniversary Webinar
Marco Cantu
Next Monday is Delphi’s 27th Anniversary and Embarcadero has organized a webinar to celebrate and to discuss the product status Delphi 1 was introduced on February 14th 1995, 27 years ago next Monday. You can… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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RAD Studio 11 Alexandria January PAServer Patch Available
Marco Cantu
Following the release of the general RAD Studio 11 Alexandria November Patch, the R&D team at Embarcadero is now making available an additional update to the Platform Assistant Server (PAServer) for the Apple macOS platform… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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The Strange Case of the VCL Forms ClientWidth and the Windows Versions PE Flags
Marco Cantu
Only a few developers are aware that Windows application behave differently depending on the Windows versions declared in their PE headers in the EXE file. This has some unexpected effects Delphi customers are reporting, due… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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The Impact of Log4j on Software Development with Delphi and C++Builder
Marco Cantu
Thoughts on the security issues of Log4j, what they imply for the developer community in general, and the specific effect on RAD Studio developers. Unless you live on a remote island with no Internet connection,… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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Appercept’s New AWS SDK For Delphi, Available With RAD Studio And Delphi Enterprise and Architect
Marco Cantu
Embarcadero today introduces a brand new first-class AWS client library for Delphi, soon to be included in the Enterprise and Architect editions of Delphi and RAD Studio. Given the relevance of Amazon Web Service cloud… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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RAD Studio 11 Alexandria November Patch Available
Marco Cantu
Today Embarcadero released a second patch for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 11 Alexandria. The patch addresses one significant regression introduced by Patch 1 and improves the support for the latest Apple SDKs on macOS… … Read more
3 years ago in News, RAD Studio
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New FireDAC Driver for SQLite SEE
Marco Cantu
Embarcadero has made available a new FireDAC driver for the SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE) database. The download is in GetIt and here are some details behind this decision. RAD Studio 11 Alexandria, like previous versions, ships… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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Native Windows is Back to Center Stage
Marco Cantu
With the downplay of UWP, native development is again the primary Windows development model, after 20 years (given we had .NET in between). Native is what Delphi does at its best, so this is great… … Read more
3 years ago in News
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