Welcome to a series of tips and tricks for taking advantage of the new Windows 64-bit Modern toolchain in C++Builder / RAD Studio 12.2! This builds on a webinar we did sharing a bunch of useful information on why and how the new C++Builder matters to you, where this was the very end (so go watch the start!)
Tip #4: Take Advantage of Security and Correctness
The new compiler does two…
Upgrading C++Builder 12.2: Tip #3, Massive Files with iostreams
December 4, 2024
Welcome to a series of tips and tricks for taking advantage of the new Windows 64-bit Modern toolchain in C++Builder / RAD Studio 12.2! This builds on a webinar we did sharing a bunch of useful information on why and how the new C++Builder matters to you, where this was the…
Upgrading C++Builder 12.2: Tip #2, Handling Old RTL
December 3, 2024
Welcome to a series of tips and tricks for taking advantage of the new Windows 64-bit Modern toolchain in C++Builder / RAD Studio 12.2! This builds on a webinar we did sharing a bunch of useful information on why and how the new C++Builder matters to you, where this was the…
InterBase ADO.NET Driver Version 10.0.2
December 2, 2024
Embarcadero has just released version 10.0.2 of the InterBase ADO.NET driver and its related Entity Framework support.
This release updates the primary driver and the EFCore support up to the 10.x version of the equivalent Firebird driver, including:
Primary driver supports for Async calls
Primary driver improved treatment of ISC_DOUBLE as type double in .NET.
Better EFCore 6.0 support
Notice…
Upgrading C++Builder 12.2: Tip #1, the Patch
December 2, 2024
Welcome to a series of tips and tricks for taking advantage of the new Windows 64-bit Modern toolchain in C++Builder / RAD Studio 12.2! This builds on a webinar we did sharing a bunch of useful information on why and how the new C++Builder matters to you, where this was the…
Read The Webinar: Why You Should Leave Delphi 7 Once And For All
December 1, 2024
This is an edited transcript of a Dev Days of Summer 2024 webinar by Embarcadero MVP Dion Mai titled “Why You Should Leave Delphi 7 Once And For All”. The original webinar is available on the Embarcadero YouTube Channel.
Hello everyone, welcome to Delphi Dev Days…
How To Recreate A Social Media App Using RAD Studio
November 29, 2024
RAD Studio is the fastest, easiest, most powerful way to create cross-platform apps and it can do anything any other framework can do. To prove how good RAD Studio with Delphi is I recreated the user interface of an award-winning social media platform, in four hours from start to finish. Oh, and the app runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, from the same code base. When the app is running it…
Practical Info: Fast Parallel Compiling with C++Builder 12.2
November 28, 2024
In the C++Builder and RAD Studio 12.2 launch webinar, we made a big deal of having fast parallel builds on by default:
This blog is to provide some practical info on the feature.
Using it
When you install 12.2, and use the Windows 64-bit Modern C++ platform, it is on by…
Practical Info: Packages in C++Builder 12.2
November 27, 2024
We’ve released the new Windows 64-bit Modern C++ toolchain over time: a preview in C++Builder 12.0 through to fully complete in 12.2 (dynamic package linking, CMake support, parallel building by default, etc.) In 12.2, it is a full replacement for the old Win64…
Practical Info: Using CMake with C++Builder 12.2
November 26, 2024
Back in October when we released C++Builder and RAD Studio 12.2, we introduced that we have fantastic CMake support.
We have both multiple demos and a lot of documentation on using CMake. This blog is to briefly point you to both.
Installing
The new CMake support, which is for the Windows 64-bit Modern toolchain, the toolchain we recommend you use, contains changes we plan to submit back to CMake.