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VCL New Features in RAD Studio 11

Now that RAD Studio 11 is out, I want to get back to some of its new features, starting with VCL enhancements. Among the new features in Delphi 11, C++ Builder 11 and RAD Studio 11 one area I’m very happy about is the work the team has done on core VCL components, addressing a number of requests that have been pending for some time. Let’s touch base on some of them. The New RichEdit…
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Announcing the Availability of RAD Studio 11 Alexandria

Embarcadero is pleased to announce the release of Delphi 11, C++Builder 11 and RAD Studio 11. RAD Studio 11 Alexandria builds on the feature set of the 10.4 releases and offers many new features, including an improved user experience with a High DPI IDE.  In this blog post…
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RAD Studio 11 Preview at Desktop First Summit

I just gave a session including a preview of RAD Studio 11 at the Embarcadero organized Desktop First UX Summit. Here are some highlights. As the release of RAD Studio 11, Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 is coming, you can learn about a few of the expected features by…
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Delphi Data in JetBrains Developers Survey

The 2021 Developer Ecosystem Survey conducted by JetBrains offers some interesting information about Delphi and its strengths. JetBrains conducts one of the largest yearly developers surveys, along with StackOverflow. Given its breadth (over 30K developers), the survey is significant for the industry overall, even if skewed towards the communities and programming languages they offer IDEs and…
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Browsing in a Windows Application: From Internet Explorer to WebView 2

Microsoft is announcing platform changes regarding HTML rendering in applications and RAD Studio VCL Windows library has TWebBrowser for MSHTML and TEdgeBrowser components for WebView2. It is fairly common these days in a native applications, like a RAD Studio VCL Windows applications, to have the need to display web content embedded into the applications itself. Microsoft recently made a couple…
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From Bindings List to Visual LiveBindings

Having looked into Delphi’s expression engine, component bindings, and the bindings list component, we can now look at the easy and intuitive way to configure an application with dynamic bindings, the Visual LiveBindings design surface. Over the past few weeks, I…
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Delphi Binding Expressions, Properties and Components

Continuing last week blog post on binding expressions, let’s see how components can participate, but creating expressions that refer to properties. Last week I introduced Delphi RTL expression engine in the blog post at https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2021-may-delphi-expression-engine.html. Now let’s make an additional step. I want to explain how components and their properties can…
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