Embarcadero has just released version 7.13.6 of the InterBase ADO.NET driver and its related Entity Framework support. This release is focused on EFCore (Entity Framework Core) scaffolding support. The primary driver has a few bug fixes mainly around the situation when you are making a connection requesting dialect 3 or with no dialect included (which defaults to 3) but the database itself is a…

Delphi was introduce to the world exactly 28 years ago today in San Francisco. While it keeps adding new features and capabilities, Delphi offers an unparalleled degree of compatibility with code written so many years ago. (Delphi 28 rendered with a gradient on a D2D canvas in a VCL application) Today is another Delphi anniversary, given it was first introduced at the SD West Conference in…

Offering some tips and suggestions you can consider to help the compiler be faster and consume less memory using the current version of Delphi. Over the last couple of years, Embarcadero has put a significant effort into optimizing the Delphi Object Pascal compilers’ performance and reducing its memory usage, so that our customers with large applications can have a better experience…

I was recently discussing against the use of the with statement in Delphi with a customer and I realized that local variables offer a very good way to get rid of with statements As any Delphi developer knows, the with statements have been long in the Object Pascal language since the early Pascal days, but they have also been considered harmful by many, myself included. To explain once more…