The 2021 Developer Ecosystem Survey conducted by JetBrains offers some interesting information about Delphi and its strengths.
JetBrains conducts one of the largest yearly developers surveys, along with StackOverflow. Given its breadth (over 30K developers), the survey is significant for the industry overall, even if skewed towards the communities and programming languages they offer IDEs and…
Embarcadero has made available the Community Edition license for the most recent 10.4 release of Delphi and C++Builder. This is a free edition for students, hobbyist and startups.
As announced yesterday with the blog post Delphi & C++Builder FREE Community Editions…
RAD Studio 11 is Coming: New Version Number Announcement and Beta Invite for Update Subscription Customers
July 13, 2021
We are pleased to announce that the next version of Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio will be version 11. This is currently in the works and we plan to release it later this year.
Moving to Version 11
A few years back, Embarcadero decided to match the version number of the…
Microsoft is announcing platform changes regarding HTML rendering in applications and RAD Studio VCL Windows library has TWebBrowser for MSHTML and TEdgeBrowser components for WebView2.
It is fairly common these days in a native applications, like a RAD Studio VCL Windows applications, to have the need to display web content embedded into the applications itself. Microsoft recently made a couple…
Having looked into Delphi’s expression engine, component bindings, and the bindings list component, we can now look at the easy and intuitive way to configure an application with dynamic bindings, the Visual LiveBindings design surface.
Over the past few weeks, I…
After looking to binding expressions and how they can link to components, let’s move to the component aimed for managing binding expressions.
In recent blog posts I covered Delphi’s RTL core expression engine and components binding. Now we can make an…
Continuing last week blog post on binding expressions, let’s see how components can participate, but creating expressions that refer to properties.
Last week I introduced Delphi RTL expression engine in the blog post at https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2021-may-delphi-expression-engine.html. Now let’s make an additional step. I want to explain how components and their properties can…
Delphi RTL include a very powerful expression engine, which is one of the foundations of the Live Bindings architecture, but can be used as a separate engine for processing expressions. This blog post offers a quick introduction to the topic.
There are many hidden gems in…
A new version of the KSVC bonus package with enhanced HighDPI support is now available in RAD Studio GetIt Package manager.
The Konopka Signature VCL Controls library is a VCL library with a nice set of enhanced visual controls and powerful embedded designers. Embarcadero…
Embarcadero has released a new InterBase ADO.NET driver for Visual Studio. The new driver, made available as a Nuget package and listed in the Visual Studio marketplace, will offer Visual Studio 2019 IDE integration and full support for ADO.NET and the Entity Framework.
The InterBase NuGet Package
The newly released NuGet package for Visual Studio includes a brand new ADO.NET driver for…
