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…
New VCL Panels in Delphi 10.2.2
December 14, 2017
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…
Debugging Delphi Apps on Android 8.1 Works
December 14, 2017
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…
New VCL Date and Time Picker Controls in Delphi 10.2.2
December 13, 2017
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…
Delphi 10.2.2 Has Been Released
December 12, 2017
As you can see at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/rad-studio-10-2-2-released-today, the new version 10.2.2of Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio is now available.
The new features are covered in the docWiki…
Delphi Blogs of the Month #57
December 12, 2017
As usual, this is a collection of links to relevant blog post and other newws you might heve missed over the recent perios of time, and that relate with Delphi one way or another.
Embarcadero News
There is a new Sencha MVP program, similar to the RAD Studio…
Recently, I wrote some new demo for Delphi PPL (Parallel Programming Library), while doing some research for an online class — which is available since last week on the Embarcadero Academy site (“Anonymous Methods in Delphi“), along with a new overall…
Hotfix 1 for InterBase 2017 Update 1
November 3, 2017
Applies to Product
InterBase 13.1.0.264 (InterBase 2017 Update 1) which was available for download between dates September 19th 2017 and October 23rd 2017.
Summary
The reason for this hotfix is a crash bug with no workaround in InterBase 2017 Update 1…
Implementing AJAX and JSONP Support in RAD Server for ExtJS
October 19, 2017
Idera recently acquired Sencha (https://www.sencha.com/) and has added the company products to the Embarcadero business unit, which produced RAD Studio and also the RAD Server web service technology. A natural question arises on how to use the two products together. While…
My Courses on the New Embarcadero Academy
October 4, 2017
The online training site Embarcadero Academy, an independently-run but Embarcadero affiliated training web site, was launched a couple of weeks ago: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170918005798/en/Embarcadero-Academy-Debuts-Online-Courses-Developers-Levels. The…


