I was discussing VCL Styles and the Bitmap Style Designer recently and came across a few webinars that I thought would be great to revisit.
VCL Styles are a fast and easy way to give your VCL application a modern UI. RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder ship with 39 VCL Styles, 14 of which are High-DPI. There are 25 more Premium VCL Styles in the GetIt Package Manager, free for everyone on update…
The 14th of February is just around the corner, and while for many that means chocolates and flowers, we know the true meaning: Delphi’s birthday!
The theme of Delphi’s 27th anniversary is Building the Future! It is always great to tell the story of how you…
.NET Apps using Embedded Interbase Database - How to deploy a secure database app with zero installation/administration
February 4, 2022
And we are back! This is a new entry from the series about Interbase for .NET developers. Doing a recap, the first post “Introducing InterBase for .NET – A Super-Secure Embedded Data Warehouse For .NET Users” can be found here, the second post “Getting Started With…
1995 is a very important year in the history of Delphi. On February 14 of that year the first version of Delphi was released for 16-bit Windows 3.1 as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool.
Delphi came as a departure from its predecessor, Borland’s Turbo Pascal for…
RAD Studio 11 Alexandria comes with a wealth of new super features to boost your productivity and give you access to new services and advances capabilities. The best new features include support for High-DPI 4k screens, provisioning for Windows 11, design-time views of…
Developer environment tools improve the speed and quality of coding with features like auto-completion, debugging, and emulation. They influence factors like development time, and the need (or lack thereof) to make future updates and bug fixes. RAD Studio, for example, comes…
Windows 11 added full GUI and X windows support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2).
In this post, you’ll join a webinar to learn more about WSL2, how it works, how to properly configure it, and how to target it in your application development. Without the need for…
Python on Android with Delphi FMX - The Cross Platform GUI Framework
January 26, 2022
Discover how Embarcadero’s new free Python modules bring the power and flexibility of Delphi’s GUI frameworks to Python GUI. VCL and FireMonkey (FMX) are mature graphical user interface libraries. VCL is primarily used for native Windows development, whereas FireMonkey…
How much effort does a developer have to put in to build a great-looking, intuitive and functional user interface? Much depends on how much the IDE or framework the developer is using facilitates the process through a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) approach…
Storing data on-device for apps on mobile is a practical and efficient way to manage data. However, it can present a number of security risks, both for data at rest and for data in transit. This is especially acute given that mobile devices wander with their owner…
