Archive for September, 2004

Next Up: Diamondback and CSS Code Completion

In Delphi 8 we didn’t really provide any support for developing CSS/stylesheets which any web developer knows are an important part of web development. Well, fortunately Diamondback (the next release of Delphi) supports CSS syntax highlighting as well as CSS code completion making it easier to build stylesheets where you don’t have to constantly [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on September 28th, 2004 under ASP.NET | Comment now »

ASP.NET Deployment and Diamondback (Delphi 2005)

When it comes to web applications deployment is an important part of the application development cycle. Typically, developers will work on a local version of a web application and once they have the application working/fixed they’ll deploy it to a production server. Well, in Diamondback (the next release of Delphi) that part of [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on September 27th, 2004 under ASP.NET | 7 Comments »

Debugging ASP.NET Applications on IIS and Diamondback

Since I work on Diamondback (the next release of Delphi) and ASP.NET specifically I thought I’d begin to mention some of the ASP.NET improvements that have been made now that we’ve “given out the bits” at Borcon. One area that can be problematic in D8 is debugging ASP.NET applications on IIS. While it’s [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on September 23rd, 2004 under ASP.NET | 8 Comments »

ActionBands and DiamondBack

This week while at BorCon I was asked at the meet the team if ActionBands would be in Diamondback (the next release of Delphi) and unfortunately I wasn’t able to immediately answer the question. I’ve since decided it would be a good idea to follow up here and reply that yes, ActionBands will be [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on September 15th, 2004 under VCL | 2 Comments »

More multi-column CSS layout

Since this post seems to have been pretty popular I thought I’d build on it a bit and provide a few more examples. In my previous post I created an HTML page that had the stylesheet information embedded in a STYLE tag within the page header which is actually a bad idea but it helped [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on September 6th, 2004 under HTML | 6 Comments »

About bugs

After a recent thread in borland.delphi.public.non-technical regarding bugs that are logged to QualityCentral I started a blog post to explain some of the issues from the perspective of an “insider”. However, it appears that I won’t have to actually finish that post since Allen Bauer has basically done just that here. I agree [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on September 6th, 2004 under General | Comment now »