ISOCpp.org ran a C++ developer survey “lite” for the past week. You can find the PDF survey results on the site at https://isocpp.org/blog/2021/04/results-summary-2021-annual-cpp-developer-survey-lite
More than 1800 C++ developers responded to the survey. Here are a few items that I pulled out of the PDF results.
Almost 90% of respondents use C++ for work.
Over 50% of developers have…
In the March 2021 edition of the Communications of the ACM there is an article, by Nicklaus Wirth, about the 50th anniversary of Nicklaus Wirth’s Pascal. What started at ETH Zurich (in 1970) was publicized in the article “The programming language pascal” by…
Building a C++ VCL Customer/Sales Master/Detail/Charting Application with 1 Line of Code
October 22, 2020
You may have read or heard about No Code and Low Code application development using systems, languages and run times. Atanas Popov, GM of Embarcadero Technology, recently blogged about low code development. “These days low-code development is en vogue. Various research…
Here was my answer 😀
Create a New | C++Builder VCL Windows application. On the form add TPanel, TButton, TEdit and TMemo components. Put the TButton and TEdit into the TPanel. Set TPanel align property to AlTop. Set the TMemo align property to alClient.
FindFirst’s declaration in SysUtils.hpp is:
extern DELPHI_PACKAGE int __fastcall FindFirst(const System::UnicodeString Path…
Using C++17 Algorithms Library Parallel Sorting with C++Builder 10.4 Sydney for Win32 and Win64
August 17, 2020
C++Builder 10.4 Sydney supports the ISO C++17 standard in the Clang based compilers for Win32 and Win64. Part of the C++17 standard includes the Algorithms library that provides execution policies to support parallel operations. Below you will find a simple VCL example…
There have been several questions on forums and Stack Overflow about ISO C++ language support in the most recent release of C++Builder. This post includes links and information about C++Builder compilers that are built on top of the Clang open source compilers.
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There are so many great new features in 10.4 Sydney, but when asked for a top five I had to prune my list a lot. Here are my top five favorite new features in RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney.
1) The new TEdgeBrowser component is a great advance for building Windows apps. Even better is the update to the TWebBrowser component that give developers flexibility to select which browser engine you want to use…
In my Embarcadero Academy RAD Server courses, “Using Delphi and RAD Server to Rapidly Design, Build, Debug, and Deploy Services-Based Solutions” and “Using C++Builder and RAD Server to Rapidly Design, Build, Debug, and Deploy Services-Based…
New C++Builder YouTube video series - "Rapid C++ Development: Combining C++Builder with MSVC++"
March 9, 2020
A new ten part YouTube video series,“Rapid C++ Development: Combining C++Builder with MSVC++” by Rob Swindell, covers some best practices for combining C++Builder with Microsoft Visual C++. In the video series Rob resents the following…
RAD Server Academy Course - lecture 7 extract - Returning JSON using JSONValue and JSONWriter.
January 15, 2020
I’ve uploaded an extract of me RAD Server Embarcadero Academy course Lecture 7 –Returning JSON using JSONValue and JSONWriter. This video clips will give you an example of one of the lectures that are included in the Delphi and C++ courses.
The clips (on my YouTube channel) show you how to use JSONWriter to output rows and columns of database data as JSON data.
There are clips…
