Recently a security issue allowing allowing local code execution after visiting a malicious URL was identified in Subversion, git and Mercurial. All three source control systems released a synchronised security update.
In RAD Studio, we use an external installation of both git and Mercurial, which you point the IDE to in the Options dialog. (Tools > Options > Version Control, and then either…
In RAD Studio 10.2Release 1 (or 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements in the debugger.
Windows debugging: general quality
Do you debug multithreaded applications? You might have noticed that wait chain traversal, showing which threads were blocked on…
In Tokyo Release 1 (otherwise known as 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements toour C++ support: a small but useful change in the IDE, and some significant improvements in the toolchain itself.
Toolchain: compiler, linker, etc
Debugging and viewing…
CodeGuard is a tool for runtime error checking in a C++ application, and catches memory leaks, invalid handles, invalid memory use (such as writing past the end of a buffer), pointer validation, accessing freed memory and resources, and more. If you’ve never used it, check out the list ofruntime errors it will find, andpotential memory access problems it will warn…
There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your applicationshowing how to have a FMX application with multiple style books, and a combo box listing the styles. When the app is running, a user can select one of the style in the combo box and the…
We are pleased to release a hotfix for RAD Studio 10.2. This hotfix addresses:
debugger issues for Android, iOS, and Linux;
Delphi Win64 compiler issues;
a C++ RTL issue addressing a crash on exit;
a security issue in the C/C++ RTL. Our thanks to Łukasz Wyporek for…
RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo will be out very soon, and I’d like to let you know some of what you can expect to see new on the C++Builder side. While the majority of work is for Linux, which will be available for C++ in 10.2.1, we’ve worked on three key areas:
Improved linking
Improved code generation
Improved debugging
Today I want to discuss what’s new in the linker.
The Win32…
Update July 24, 2018:With thejust-released Community Edition of C++Builder, we’ve updated these posts.
Please visit the new version of this blog post here.
Community Editionreplaces the old Starter edition, and is a full-featured, free…
There is a known issue where occasionally, after the C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin Update 2 installer has run, eight header files may be missing from C++Builder’s include\windows\sdk folder.
The bug manifests as trying to build a Windows C++ application, and…
Do you want to learn C++, but don’t know where to begin? This series takes you through from the very beginning, assuming you have some programming knowledge but know no C++ at all, and show you how to build a real-world, useful application, demonstrating UI and logic design principles, the basics of C++, and useful classes and methods, ie a great overview of the areas you need to know about…
