C++News

Buffer Overflow in the C/C++ RTL

We recently identified a potential buffer overflow in the C/C++ runtime library (RTL). Although this is an issue that was introduced to the code in 1997 with no exploitation since its introduction, we are publishing a notification and a fix for safety and openness, out of an abundance of caution. Issue information: Affects _wgetcurdir, _wsearchstr, plus the “_t” variants _tgetdcwd and…
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InterBase ODBC Driver on GitHub

Embarcadero just released the source code of the most recent version of the ODBC driver for the InterBase relational database. This is an open source driver which has been available for long, but it’s the first time it is officially hosted in a public repository, at: https://github.com/Embarcadero/InterBaseODBCDriver  The source code includes recent fixes to add support for catalog/tables…
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CodeDelphiNews

Harnessing the power of the Web with Delphi & HTMX - Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we explored a simple demonstration of a web application running with Delphi code inside a WebBroker application, and using HTMX as a kind of middle-man. In this article we are going to further improve the demo, by making it look modern and up-to-date with just a few changes. If you haven’t read the prior article, I highly recommend you to do so, because you will need…
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CodeDelphiNews

Harnessing the power of the Web with Delphi & HTMX

If you ever wanted to create a server-based web application, then HTMX is a solution that offers great flexibility for development, allowing RAD Studio developers to deliver the business logic while still allowing designers to make the web application look great using CSS. Without having to write a single line of JavaScript code, you can build a full web application, with the entire logic in a web…
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