C++CodeHow-To'sModernizationRAD Studio

My code used to work but crashes! Easily Solving Incorrect Code with bcc64x

We’ve had a couple of support requests that are along the lines of, ‘I’m upgrading to the new Win64 Modern C++ toolchain. But when I run my app built in Release mode, it crashes, and it’s hard to see why.’ First chance exception at $00007FF641CB123F. Exception class 0x80000003 with message 'Exception 0x80000003 encountered at address 0x7ff641cb123f'. Process…
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CodeDelphiHow-To'sTech Partner

How To Run Turbo Pascal On An Android Phone!

Here’s a guest blog post by Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero MVP and US Director of GDK Software Why run Turbo Pascal on Android? Because we can! As part of the Turbo Pascal 40th birthday celebration (combined with Delphi’s 29th birthday) I did a short demo of running Turbo Pascal on Android under Termux using DOSBox. This goes into a little more detail of how to install and set it up.
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Getting Big with Pi in Delphi

When I was very young and first learned about Pi they told me 3.14 was a good approximation, but it was an irrational number that went on forever, and people with computers were able to calculate many digits. I had a computer (Commodore Vic 20) and wanted to see how many digits of Pi I could calculate. This is when I discovered floating point number precision limitations, which foiled my first…
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How To Make MySQL Your SQL

Today (December 20th 2022) and tomorrow you can join us for Embarcadero’s two day Enterprise CodeRage event which focusses, as you might expect, on enterprise development topics using your favorite IDE software. I am presenting two sessions – this blog post…
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Using FireDAC Connection Pooling with RAD Server

Connection Pooling Meaning A connection pool is a cache of database connections maintained so that the connections can be reused when future requests to the database are required. Connection pools are used to enhance the performance of executing commands on a database. Opening and maintaining a database connection for each user, especially requests made to a dynamic database-driven application, is…
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