Google has made available to all Gmail users a Linux Shell called Google Cloud Shell for interacting with their Cloud Services. This shell is a free Debian 7 shell with a storage capacity of 5GB. It is not a VM that continues to run while you are disconnected, but rather a shell that allows you to perform tasks on a Linux box. When your session ends and you reconnect, a new machine is created for…
Last week, Embarcadero released a patch for Tokyo 10.2.2, focused on Android and RTL improvements. What happened is that Windows would not always ask for execution with admin account (on systems with active User Account Control) and could end up copying the replacement files…
Today is Delphi’s 23rd birthday. The product was launched on Valentine day in 1995 in San Francisco (andI had the luck to be there, as I covered in the past). 23 years is a lot of time for people. It is a incredibly long time for technologies. It is hard to find…
As you might remember, I’m helping building the Delphi curricula on the Embarcadero Academy web site. My focus so far has been on the Delphi language, while other tackle VCL and other areas, or other languages and tools. Last week I completed my set of classes on the Modern Delphi language (Interfaces, Generics, Anonymous Methods) with aclass on reflection and RTTI. You can buy each of…
The Delphi language shares with many others a standard resource allocation pattern to make sure that in case of an exception the resources is properly released. Resources in this context are memory objects, files, operating system objects and handles, and the like. In…
The new features for the HTTP client library offer more flexibility and options in terms of protocol and standards support.
Better Secure Protocols Support
The first change is the improved support for security protocols. In the pastit wasn’t possible to…
DataSet Mapping to JSON for JavaScript client support in RAD Studio 10.2.2
December 15, 2017
RAD Studio has offered support for JSON in different ways and for a long time. From the JSON system unit (originally part of the DBX space) to the old DataSnap table mapping (also via DBX) and to FireDAC tables to JSON mapping, there are many ways to interact with JSON data structures. However, until the most recent release, we lacked a way to map a dataset to a custom JSON structure — the…
With the need to supportmore screen resolutions, while creating nice looking user interfaces and pleasant user experiences, we think it is important tooffer additional ways to build the UI of your VCL applications. This is why in 10.2.2 we introduced two new VCL…
When Google introduced Android 8 this summer, they increased platform security but happened to block socket access to the debugger, basically preventing debugging applications on a device. You’d see the error message “Can’t open socket: Permission…
We at Embarcadero continue to consider the VCL as the best library for Windows-specific GUI developmentand are continuing the effort of improving and modernizing it, particularly improving the overall support for Windows 10. One of the directions of this effort (along side with styling, WinRT API, Desktop Bridge and more) is the addition of new VCL controls with the look of feel of the…
