RAD Studio 10.4 has a nice set of new features, now covered in several blog post and in the announcement webinar (the replay is available athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rTLEXLVueQ).
The 10.4 release also addresseda large number of issues, including fixesfor over 700 publicly reported issues on Quality Portal (QP).You can see a (partial) list of the fixed issuesin…
There was a configuration issue in RAD Studio Sample GitHub Repository (https://github.com/Embarcadero/RADStudio10.4Demos), namely the fact the demos were configured with LF only (Line Feed), rather CR LF (Carriage Return and Life Feed) as the RAD Studio IDE expects.
Following the beta testing period and some blog post pre-announcing some of the key features (see also my blog), yesterday Embarcadero officially released RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney, which includes Delphi 10.4.
My Top Three Features
There are many new features in the product.
Delphi Runtime Library is one of the foundations of the product, as the UI libraries such as VCL and FireMonkey and also database access libraries and many third party components reply on the core RTL. That is why changes to the RTL are particularly relevant, as they tend to affect all developers. Here are some key changesthat are now available.
Bit Counting Standard Functions
We have…
RAD Studio has a light weight package manager, a mechanism for downloading additional product features, add-on libraries and components, demos, VCL and FMX styles and more. Some of the content is provided by Embarcadero, but a lot comes from our community of developers and…
InterBase is a powerful, zero-administration, small footprint database engine that can power your server and even run on your mobile devices as an embedded database. InterBase 2020 added a number of new features, including tablespaces support for InterBase server, new OS…
In the past, the VCL library allowed a developer to select one style (or no style) for the entire application.In10.4 the VCL library allows you to use multiple VCL styles at the same time in different forms of your applications, or even different controls of the same form. You can also mix styles elements (controls and form) and elements using the Windows default platform theme.
This…
RAD Studio 10.4 brings support for working with web content through a new Chromium-based Edge browser control in VCL applications. The new TEdgeBrowser component wraps the Microsoft WebView2 component. TEdgeBrowser supersedes TWebBrowser, which uses the Internet Explorer web…
RAD Studio and Delphi 10.4 Sydney are available now!
What is a Managed Record in Delphi?
Records in Delphi can have fields of any data type. When a record has plain (non-managed) fields, like numeric or other enumerated values there isn’t much to do for the compiler.
Italian translation of New Embarcadero Licenses and Download Portal
Una delle aree d’interesse di Embarcadero, oltre al lavoro su RAD Studio e altri prodotti, è il miglioramento dell’esperienza utente nel suo complesso. Come parte di questo compito, ci siamo impegnati a sostituire la vecchia infrastruttura del sito Web EDN (Embarcadero Developer Network) rendendola più moderna e…
