Today the primary focus for RAD Studio database access is on the FireDAC universal database access library. Given in the past Delphi and C++Builder also included other database engines, and they still include a few alternative options, Embarcadero has been creating scripts and helper units to simplify the migration from other database access libraries to FireDAC.
The ReFind Tool
The tool we use…
Among many other features and improvements already discussed in other blog posts, RAD Studio 12.3 release offers enhancement in many areas of the VCL library. While the primary focus was on quality improvements, the team also implemented a few small and focused…
As mentioned in the RAD Studio 12.3 announcement blog post, alongside the upgrade of Android tooling to support API level 35, we are releasing a brand new visual tool to help you manage the Android SDK installation.
The tool is called Android SDK Manager and it’s available…
Embarcadero introduced its first integrated AI solution in the RAD Studio IDE in version 12.2. The technology, called Smart CodeInsight, offers the ability to interact with different LLM engines, some online and one offline, but also to install drivers for other AI engines thanks to a specific OpenToools API interface. The available engines are:
OpenAI
Ollama (offline)
Gemini
Claude
There are…
Embarcadero is very happy to announce RAD Studio 12.3 Athens along with Delphi 12.3 and C++Builder 12.3 is available to customers starting today. The RAD Studio 12.3 Athens release offers the Initial Release of the 64-bit version of the RAD Studio IDE, along with a number of…
February 2024
Delphi 29th Anniversary
April 2024
Embarcadero released RAD Studio 12.1 Athens, primarily focuses on enhancing the features in RAD Studio 12 but also including the first official release of new C++ Win64 Clang–based compiler and toolchain, Delphi Android…
Embarcadero has just released version 10.0.2 of the InterBase ADO.NET driver and its related Entity Framework support.
This release updates the primary driver and the EFCore support up to the 10.x version of the equivalent Firebird driver, including:
Primary driver supports for Async calls
Primary driver improved treatment of ISC_DOUBLE as type double in .NET.
Better EFCore 6.0 support
Notice…
This patch for RAD Studio 12.2 addresses two issues in C++Builder and provides missing MacOS RTL Delphi source files. This patch is about 30MB to download. This patch is delivered using the patch installer and should be applied exclusively to RAD Studio 12.2 Patch 1 (build…
October 17, 2024
RAD Studio 12.2 Patch #1 provides quality improvements to the 12.2 release, focused on RAD Studio IDE, FireMonkey, the bcc64x Win64 Modern toolchain, RAD Server, and the 64-bit versions of the Delphi compiler.
The patch also fixes a package binary…
While the most relevant new features were in other product areas, there are a few enhancements in the Delphi Run Time Library (o RTL) that we thing is worth pointing out.
New TParallelArray Class
There is a new TParallelArray class in the System.Threading unit that enables running operations like &For and Sort in parallel on Array items. On multi core systems, this can speed them up…
