We are happy to announce that Embarcadero has released an updated ADO.NET driver for the InterBase database. The new driver offers:
General support for .NET 6
InterBase Events support in ADO.NET
Installer support for VS 2022
There are also a number of bug fixes and improvements compared to the previous release of the driver.
The source of the driver is on GitHub…
Delphi iOS Simulator Support in RAD Studio 11.2
August 11, 2022
(Updated on September 7, 2022)
Embarcadero has just released the new version of RAD Studio 11 Alexandria, and we want to start sharing with you some of the features of RAD Studio 11 Alexandria Release 2 (or RAD Studio 11.2).
Delphi iOS Simulator Support*
A few years back…
RAD Studio Quality Portal 2022 User Guide
July 29, 2022
Embarcadero’s Quality Portal provides a community process for resolving, clarifying, and tracking quality issues regarding Embarcadero’s products and services. Embarcadero customers with an EDN account can create bug reports and feature requests, view other customers’…
A Delphi Demo with WeatherStack by APILayer
July 14, 2022
I recently gave a presentation about the use of cloud and REST APIs from Delphi at the Italian Delphi Day conference, at the end of June. Among the various demos, I made some experiments using APILayer REST APIs. In case you don’t know, APILayer is a company that is part…
This is the second year Delphi is listed in the very large StackOverflow survey and results for the language are better than last year, even if mixed in some areas.
The Delphi programming language is officially listed in the most recent StackOverflow developers surveys.
Speaking at Italian Delphi Day 2022
June 9, 2022
In two weeks, I’ll be giving a couple of sessions at the (online) Italian Delphi Day event, organized by Wintech Italia.
This year the Italian Delphi Day event (one of the longest running yearly Delphi conferences) is scheduled for June 21st to 23rd. Once again, it…
The VCL LockDrawing method in TWinControl
May 27, 2022
One of the features added to the VCL library in Delphi 11 is the ability to handle Windows WM_SETREDRAW message easily with two specific methods added to the TWinControl class: LockDrawing and UnlockDrawing
I was going over my to do list earlier this week and found a not…
RAD Studio 11.1 Alexandria Patch 1 Available
April 27, 2022
Today Embarcadero released a patch for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 11.1 Alexandria. The patch addresses a few relevant issues in the most recent release and is available to active update subscription customers in the GetIt Package Manager (with a matching alert…
Embarcadero InterBase 2020 Update 3 Released!
April 20, 2022
I’m delighted to announce that today Embarcadero has released a new version of its InterBase flagship database engine, InterBase 2020 Update 3. With this release, the company continues to improve the product’s quality and usability.
UX Enhancements
The most visible…
RAD Studio 11.1 and Windows PE Security Flags
March 25, 2022
Delphi and C++Builder 11.1 enable a number of PE security flags for Windows applications by default, some of which were previously available but a little hidden.
ASLR and other recommended Windows security flags have long been supported by Delphi. In the recent 11.1…


