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Delphi (C++Builder) Android Mobile Client DataSnap Server

Author: Vsevolod L1433 Преамбула DataSnap – платформа создания многозвенных приложений. Её история достаточно продолжительна, начиная с совсем ранних версий Delphi. Роль и значимость этой технологии/платформы изменялась в течение…
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Detecting connected Bluetooth devices on Android

In Appmethod, we include many different components. This includes visual components for user interface elements and also non-visual components for database access, accessing device sensors/services, connecting to REST services etc. While Appmethod includes many pre-built…
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How to Fix MSBuild Error MSB4006

Author: Craig Stuntz You may encounter an error which looks like this: MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target “ResolveProjectReferences” [MyProjectName\MyProjectName.csproj] …when running MSBuild from the…
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Altium Designer 15 000 000 codelines

Author: zhang Embarcadero likes mentioning Altimum Designer when asked about high-class large-scale successful commercial systems made with Delphi. The project has about 15000000 codelines. Altium Designer is a CAD system for electronic products, including 3D modeling. Today we’ll discuss the technical side of the system as far as such a system allows to be highlighted from…
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Printing from an Android device using FireMonkey

Author: J T403 Printing from an Android device requires a little bit more setup than in iOS where you simply connect to an AirPrint capable printer (like my Epson XP-400). However, Android printing appears to work with any Wifi printer (or PC connected printer), so its more…
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Setting Text Parameters in FireMonkey

Author: Сергей One of small but rather useful new features of FireMonkey introduced in XE3 version is the FMX.Types.ITextSettings interface. Often we need to change some parameters of an output text for a component, which class is not known a priori. For example, a component can be of the TText or TTextControl classes. These classes have Color or FontColor properties respectively. In general…
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YAML and Remote Code Execution

Author: Craig Stuntz YAML’s security risks are in no way limited to Rails or Ruby. YAML documents should be treated as executable code and firewalled accordingly. Deserializing arbitrary types is user-controlled, arbitrary code execution. It’s Not Just Ruby A…
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Installing Sonar for Delphi

Author: Miguel Angel Oliver On15th of November the HTML5 Builder QA Team was in the VLCTesting where welearned very good experiences and shared knowledge, amongst this was the software Sonar,Right now in HTML5 Builder we are not using that tool but we found interesting to add a continuous inspection method to our continuous integration method and we decided to dig a little in…
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