Archive for October, 2004

Delphi 2005: Revisiting the Welcome Page

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In C#Builder 1.0 and now Delphi 8.0 the IDE has a Welcome page which is little more than Microsoft’s WebBrowser control hosted by the IDE pointing to a rather static HTML page. In it’s current incarnation the Welcome page is rather lacking but with a little creativity we [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on October 29th, 2004 under Delphi | 1 Comment »

Pat Kerpan Borland’s CTO Joins the Blogsphere

Just wanted to welcome Pat Kerpan, Borland’s own CTO to the blogsphere. Welcome Pat!
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Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on October 7th, 2004 under General | Comment now »

Next Up: Diamondback (Delphi 2005) and Formatting ASP.NET/HTML

To start off I’d like to address the issue of why we need a formatter at all. Our ASP.NET/HTML designer leverages the MSHTML control as its design surface and as a result we have to deal with the fact that this control discards any/all formatting including whitespace preservation when working with HTML. If you’d actually [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on October 4th, 2004 under ASP.NET, HTML | 3 Comments »

Next Up: Extensible ASP.NET Code Completion for 3rd Parties

Diamondback, like Delphi 8, supports code completion on ASP.NET server controls from within the code editor as well as the tag editor. This makes working with ASP.NET tags much easier and helps prevent mistyping tag and attibute names helping keep your development time productive. In Diamondback we’ve changed the loading of schema files [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on October 2nd, 2004 under ASP.NET | Comment now »

Firefox just keeps getting better

Now that the 1.0 preview release of Firefox is out I just gotta say again how nice it is to have a browser that keeps getting better and better. Some of the new features that I really like are incremental search and the highlighting of the address bar when you browse to a secure [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on October 1st, 2004 under General | 6 Comments »

Next Up: Diamondback (Delphi 2005) and ASP.NET Template Editing

In continuing my posts on new ASP.NET features in Diamondback today I’ll mention ASP.NET template editing. Several ASP.NET controls support what are called templates which are small fragments of Text/HTML that the control uses are runtime. Controls that support templates like or template columns within a require a special template editing [...]

Posted by Steve Trefethen archive on October 1st, 2004 under ASP.NET | 6 Comments »