Delphi

A case when FreeAndNil is your enemy

Author: Allen It seems that my previous post about FreeAndNil sparked a little controversy. Some of you jumped right on board and flat agreed with my assertion. Others took a very defensive approach. Still others, kept an “arms-length” view. Actually, the whole discussion in the comments was very enjoyable to read. There were some very excellent cases on both sides. Whether or not you…
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jqGrid and XSS Security

Author: Craig Stuntz Version 3.5.2 of jqGrid included an important new feature: Now when autoencode is set to true we encode the data coming from server and not only when we post it (secutity fix) Prior to this, you were required to encode the data yourself. Now personally…
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Entity Framework Models and Source Control

Author: Craig Stuntz As you’re probably aware, an Entity Framework model is stored in a single XML file, with the extension EDMX. Developers occasionally ask if this means that two people cannot work on the entity model concurrently. My answer to this is, “It…