Embarcadero is pleased to announce the release of RAD Studio 11 Alexandria Release 1, also known as RAD Studio 11.1, along with Delphi 11.1 and C++Builder 11.1.
The RAD Studio 11.1 Alexandria release enhances the great features introduced in RAD Studio 11, with a focus on usability, performance and stability improvements. It also includes some new functionality, including new database…
The C++Builder 25th Anniversary: Historical Article on C++ Builder Language Extensions
March 2, 2022
To help celebrating C++Builder 25th anniversary, I’m republishing a very old article of mine on the C++ language extensions introduced by Borland back then.
As you have probably heard, soon after Delphi’s 27th birthday, C++ Builder is celebrating its 25th…
Yesterday, on Delphi’s 27th anniversary Embarcadero released a WinUI 3 demo that I presented in the anniversary webinar. Here is the official announcement along with some more technical information. The demo is available in GetIt.
Introduction
Microsoft’s Windows App…
Next Monday is Delphi’s 27th Anniversary and Embarcadero has organized a webinar to celebrate and to discuss the product status
Delphi 1 was introduced on February 14th 1995, 27 years ago next Monday. You can read the recent Delphi Time Warp and Building the Future Embarcadero blog posts, delve into Delphi’s history at delphi.embarcadero.com or my own very old Delphi 10th…
Following the release of the general RAD Studio 11 Alexandria November Patch, the R&D team at Embarcadero is now making available an additional update to the Platform Assistant Server (PAServer) for the Apple macOS platform to support recent updates of the Apple…
The Strange Case of the VCL Forms ClientWidth and the Windows Versions PE Flags
January 4, 2022
Only a few developers are aware that the behavior of Windows applications varies depending on the Windows versions declared in their PE headers in the EXE file. Delphi customers are reporting some unexpected effects as a result of a core configuration change in Delphi 11…
The Impact of Log4j on Software Development with Delphi and C++Builder
December 22, 2021
Thoughts on the security issues of Log4j, what they imply for the developer community in general, and the specific effect on RAD Studio developers.
Unless you live on a remote island with no Internet connection, you’ve certainly heard about the Log4j issues that affected so many applications and internet services over the last 10 days. The coincidental discovery of this critical bug in the…
Appercept’s New AWS SDK For Delphi, Available With RAD Studio And Delphi Enterprise and Architect
December 15, 2021
Embarcadero today introduces a brand new first-class AWS client library for Delphi, soon to be included in the Enterprise and Architect editions of Delphi and RAD Studio.
Given the relevance of Amazon Web Service cloud infrastructure in today’s IT landscape, including an…
Today Embarcadero released a second patch for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 11 Alexandria. The patch addresses one significant regression introduced by Patch 1 and improves the support for the latest Apple SDKs on macOS Monterey with a new version of PAServer for…
Embarcadero has made available a new FireDAC driver for the SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE) database. The download is in GetIt and here are some details behind this decision.
RAD Studio 11 Alexandria, like previous versions, ships with a FireDAC driver for the SQLite database offering two different approaches for delivery. One option is static linking, that is, to compile SQLite into your…
