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RAD Server Solution Series: [Hospitality] Restaurant Survey Application

RAD Server is a turn-key application foundation for rapidly building and deploying services based applications. RAD Server enables developers to quickly build new application back-ends or migrate existing Delphi or C++ client/server business logic to a modern services based architecture that is open, stateless, secure and scalable. RAD Server is easy to develop, deploy and operate making it…
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Enterprise Connectors Released Today

After a successful beta for the past couple of months, I am excited to announce that the CData Enterprise Connectors have been released. The 30 day Trial versions can be downloaded via the GetIt Package Manager (Tools > GetIt Package Manager > Connectors) in RAD…
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Windows App Modernization with RAD Studio Tokyo

With RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, you can easily update your existing application and give it a modern Windows 10 look and feel. In today’s post, I thought I would highlight our Windows 10 support to help you move your existing applications forward. Windows 10 VCL GUI…
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Viewing Salesforce Data in RAD Studio Data Explorer

How to view Salesforce data in RAD Studio Data Explorer using the Enterprise Connectors for Salesforce. With the Enterprise Connectors for Salesforce, you gain access to live Salesforce data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to both retrieve and update Salesforce data. This article will walk through connecting to Salesforce using…
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Quickly find add-ons with new GetIt categories

We have added a number of new categories to the GetIt Package Manager in 10.2 Tokyo to make it easier to find what you’re looking for in GetIt. The GetIt Package Manager can be accessed through the Tools menu in the IDE. Here’s the new list of categories…
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FireMonkey Android Compatibility Patch for RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo

Please read the installation instructions at the bottom of the Code Central listing before downloading the patch. Customers who are using the 10.2 Trial can also get this patch. This patch fixes critical Android issues in Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio 10.2 relating to text input for newer versions of Android (issues that were already present in Berlin), control rendering, and performance…
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FireMonkey Native and Custom Styles in Action - Video

This video shows building a profile screen for your multi-device application using the FireMonkey framework with both native UI support and custom styling. Highlighted in the video are custom multi-device styles included in Embarcadero’s premium style bonus pack and…
C++

May 2017 Roadmap Commentary from Product Management

We just published the May 2017 Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio roadmap which we’re really excited about. In our roadmap, you can find the key features that we planned for calendar year 2017/2018. The plans are aligned with Embarcadero’s fiscal year which starts April…
Delphi

Adding a custom style selector to your VCL application

Adding a style selector menu to your application only takes a couple of lines of code and allows you to quickly update your existing user interface while providing added flexibilityto your customers. To add a style selector, I added a combobox to the form with the following code: uses VCL.Themes; procedure TForm9.StyleSelectorChange(Sender: TObject); begin …
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