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Aqua Data Studio Adds InterBase Support

Recently the ADS team at Idera released a new version of their database management environment. The new version notably adds direct support for Embarcadero InterBase relational database. You can read the full announcement athttps://community.idera.com/database-tools/blog/b/community_blog/posts/announcing-general-availability-of-aqua-data-studio-20-0delve into the specific features…
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C++

RAD Studio Roadmap May 2019

With this article, the RAD Studio PM team is introducing an updated roadmap for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio. This May 2019 roadmap includes plans for the next 12 months. Alongside, we have also published a May 2019 Roadmap PM Commentary blog post, with more details and…
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Classic Tip: From Default Project Options to RAD Studio Option Sets

In early versions of Delphi and RAD Studio, a user could change some of the current project options and (with a check box) save them as default, that is as the initial options for any future project. It was also possible to change this configuration by selecting the Project Options when no project was active. This feature is long gone (I thinkit was dropped from XE2 or XE3). What’s the…
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Delphi

Classic Tips: VCL Multi-Column ListBox

I might be starting a new series of blog posts, going back to classic tips. This one was triggered by a Quality Portal report, which refers to an imprecise (but not fully incorrect) page of the RAD Studio Doc Wiki — same works in C++Builder. I did a quick Google…
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Selling your Delphi apps via Microsoft Store is now Cheaper

For a few years now, Delphi has hadsupport for the Windows Dektop Bridge. This is a Microsoft technology allowing to create UWP (Universal Windows Platform) applications based on a traditional Win32/Win64 application. Delphi IDE simplifies this process (making it smoother than with Microsoft own tools) as you ca read in thedocwiki. While there are still some hurdles to enable desktop…
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C++

RAD Studio 10.3.1 HTTP and SOAP Clients Enhancements

In RAD Studio 10.3, Embarcadero moved the SOAP client implementation to the HTTP client library for all platforms, given the issues support HTTPS with the previous architecture (based on Indy) on mobile platforms. On Windows, there was already a native implementation, but based on an older Windows HTTP client library. This change caused some incompatibilities, we have started addressing in…
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