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VOTEDelphi Package Manager RFC
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Delphi/Rad Studio desperately needs a proper package/library/component manager. A package manager provides a standardized way of consuming third party libraries. At the moment, use of third party libraries is very much adhoc, and in many… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi,Open Source
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Delphi 10.3 Rio – Language Changes
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Back in December 2016, I posted some ideas for some Delphi language enhancements. That post turned out to be somewhat controversial, I received some rather hostile emails about how I was trying to turn Delphi… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi,FinalBuilder
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New VSoft Forums
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TLDR; Our forums have moved to https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums After years of frustration with Active Forums on Dotnetnuke, we finally got around to moving to a new forums platform. The old forums had zero facilities for dealing with… … Read more
6 years ago in Delphi,General,Web Development
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Introducing Continua CI Version 1.9
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Version 1.9 is now out of beta and available as a stable release. Thank you to those of you who have already tried out the beta – especially those who reported issues. This version brings… … Read more
6 years ago in .NET,Continua CI,Delphi,General,Web Development,Windows
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Continua CI Roadmap 2018
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I’m not usually one for publishing roadmaps, mostly because I don’t like to promise something and not deliver. That said, we’ve had a few people ask recently what is happening with Continua CI. Disclaimer -… … Read more
7 years ago in .NET,Continua CI,Delphi,Web Development
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Introducing archive rules in Continua CI
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In version 1.8.1.870 of Continua CI, we have added new archiving functionality to the workspace and repository rules. Builds can generate a lot of output files: binary library files or report files, for example. Copying… … Read more
7 years ago in Continua CI,Delphi
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Continua CI and TLS 1.2
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SSL standards are changing, and older SSL/TSL protocols are slowly being deprecated, or even turned off by some services. This post shows how to enable TLS 1.2 support in Continua CI. Yesterday, we started getting… … Read more
7 years ago in .NET,Continua CI,Delphi,Windows
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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
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The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has only been out a few hours, but we’re already getting questions about it. In our limited testing, FinalBuilder 8 and Automise 5 run fine. I’ve only been running… … Read more
7 years ago in Automise,Delphi,FinalBuilder,Windows
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Continuous Integration with FinalBuilder
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In this post, I’m going to look at how to structure a FinalBuilder project so that it will run on your dev machine, or on your Continua CI Server without modification. This allows the best… … Read more
7 years ago in .NET,Continua CI,Delphi,FinalBuilder
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Continuous Integration Server performance
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Continuous Integration Servers are often underspecified when it comes to hardware. In the early days of Automated Builds, the build server was quite often that old pc in the corner of the office, or an… … Read more
7 years ago in .NET,Continua CI,Delphi,FinalBuilder,Git,Mercurial,Web Development
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Windows Manifest Files
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In this post I’m going to look at Windows Manifest Files, what they do, why we need them and how to use them in Delphi and FinalBuilder. We often get asked questions about UAC prompts,… … Read more
7 years ago in Delphi,FinalBuilder,XML
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Delphi VersionInfo errors
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Over the last year or so, we have seen more and more “bug reports” about compiling Delphi projects with FinalBuilder, in particular, reporting issues with compiling version info resources when using Delphi 10.1 (Berlin) and… … Read more
7 years ago in Delphi,FinalBuilder
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Delphi Language Enhancements
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TL;DR – The Delphi language is very verbose, dated and unattractive to younger developers. Suggestions for improvements below. The Delphi/Object Pascal language really hasn’t changed all that much in the last 20 years. Yes there… … Read more
8 years ago in Delphi
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Visual Studio 2017 RC Support
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Today we released updates to FinalBuilder (8.0.0.2007) and Continua CI (1.8.1.185) which add support for Visual Studio 2017 RC. There were a few issues we found with Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. The first was,… … Read more
8 years ago in .NET,Continua CI,Delphi,FinalBuilder
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Continua CI and FinalBuilder integration improvements
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Continua CI 1.8.0.176 and FinalBuilder 8.0.0.1817 (both released today) provide somewhat better integration between the two products. Continua CI 1.8 The FinalBuilder Action in Continua CI now produces an xml file that is consumed… … Read more
9 years ago in Continua CI,Delphi,FinalBuilder,FinalBuilder Server
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