Archive for June, 2004

Design flaw with the Windows Forms Designer

One thing that we have always taken for granted in Delphi is a great VCL forms designer, and I am not just talking about the floating forms debate that Alan mentions in his blog what I am talking about is it’s stability and intuative design and it’s ability to handle inherited forms with ease. The other [...]

Posted by Tim Jarvis on June 30th, 2004 under Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

A small risk of sounding like an advert

I have to admit to be like a kid in a candy shop right at the moment, don’t get me wrong, I love my Job as a consultant for Borland, but it is rare these days for me to get to do much implementation work, a lot of what I do is assist people when [...]

Posted by Tim Jarvis on June 27th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Lutz Roeders Reflector updater is broken

My favourite reflection tool download site has moved servers, and now the auto updating is broken Talking about reflector, I was playing just now and found a class in the System.Xml.Serialization namespace, "CodeIdentifier", that has a couple of what I thought were very cool static methods, MakeCamel, MakePascal and MakeValid. But looking at [...]

Posted by Tim Jarvis on June 23rd, 2004 under Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

Some fun and games with role based security

I had some interesting fun and games today. I wanted to implement some role based security on the click event of a menu item and enable or disable a sub menu item based upon membership of a role, so first of all I added the role into my system, then proceded to write some code [...]

Posted by Tim Jarvis on June 23rd, 2004 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

ok then….here goes

Well, by now I guess most regulars of the BDN site have realised that we here at Borland got an email from David I the other day encouraging everyone to start up a Blog. I know that there have already been some comments about the shift in policy that this represents, so enjoy. About me I have [...]

Posted by Tim Jarvis on June 20th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »