Atanas Popov (General Manager of Embarcadero) and Marco Cantu (RAD Studio Product Manager at Embarcadero) have had a conversation about the role of VCL for Windows client development. This is an un-edited transcript of the recording of the chat.
Atanas: Hi Marco, I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you a couple of questions about VCL. As the interest in upgrading to Windows 10 grows and…
InterBase 2020 Released by Embarcadero
November 14, 2019
Today, Embarcadero is announcing the release of a new version of its InterBase Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), called InterBase 2020. InterBase is a powerful, zero-administration, small-footprint database engine that can power your server and even run on your…
InterBase Change Views Patent Granted
October 30, 2019
I’m pleased to announce that Embarcadero has been granted a patent for “Tracking change data in a database” that matches the architectural and implementation work done to implement Change Views in InterBase. The patent request was originally filed in 2014, in advance…
New Tip: TBooleanHelper.ToString and TUseBoolStrs enumeration
October 7, 2019
Among the native type record helpers that were introduced in the Delphi RTL a few years back, there is one for the Boolean data type. It has a few methods you can apply to a Boolean variable, including ToString. This is the class helper definition:
If you…
EKON 23 in October and UK RoadShow in November
September 30, 2019
I have two conference trips planned for the fall, after the event I attended in Germany at Foren-Tage last week. Here is some more information.
EKON 23, Dusseldorf
As one of the longest running conferences focused on Delphi, EKON is at its 23rd year. It is always packed…
Joint Windows 10 Webinar with Microsoft and Embarcadero
September 16, 2019
Embarcadero has been focusing a recent series of webinar on Windows 10 and the RAD Studio features (mainly in VCL) specifically focused on the latest version of Windows. This week we are going to have a special event, presented by Microsoft and Embarcadero, and offering a…
A Tale of 3 APIs: VCL integration with WinAPI, COM & ShellAPI, WinRT
September 9, 2019
In this blog post I want to offer some highlights from the session, but I won’t cover all of the details of the 40+ minutes technical discussion of the webinar.
Windows APIs Timeline
Let me start by covering the timeline of the various APIs added to the operating system…
Perché passare a Windows 10? (in Italiano)
September 6, 2019
Mentre RAD Studio offre una fantastica esperienza di sviluppo multi-dispositivo per applicazioni mobili e desktop, Embarcadero resta concentrata anche sul mantenere i suoi strumenti di sviluppo al primo posto per lo sviluppo di client Windows, con la migliore libreria per…
Why Should You Move to Windows 10?
August 27, 2019
While RAD Studio offers a great multi-device mobile and desktop development experience, Embarcadero is focused on keeping its development tools at the top spot for Windows client development, with the best Windows client UI library, offering deep API integration. There are…
Embarcadero has just released a patch for RAD Studio, C++Builder and Delphi 10.3.2. The patch is available at:
https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30886
Here are the readme notes:
Issue: Applications compiled with RAD Studio 10.3 or 10.3.1 and using runtime packages will not…


