In RAD Studio 10.3, we’ve greatly improved the look and feel of the main window and IDE and Project Options dialogs. Some highlights are a cleaner modern look and updated dark theme in the main window, and some organisational changes and addition of dialog-wide search in the Options dialogs. Our aim is to make minimal changes in layout, ie allow you to keep using the habit and expectation…
Deferring Delphi Managed Records Support
November 21, 2018
As you probably remember, I previously posted a 10.3 pre-release blog post onmanaged records in the Delphi language.
We had a great beta program for RAD Studio 10.3and received a lot of very valuable feedback from partners and customers.Based on the…
CodeRage 2018 is Coming December 4th through 6th
November 20, 2018
Clear your calendar and get your snacks ready. It is time for everyone’s favorite virtual developers conference: CodeRage 2018.
Here is a sampling of some of the sessions you will find this year:
A C++ Language Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup Hosted by…
VCL Support for Per Monitor v2 and GetSystemMetrics Coming in 10.3
November 20, 2018
In the coming 10.3 release of RAD Studio, we are adding support for Microsoft Per Monitor v2 mode available in recent releases of Windows 10.
Supporting multiple monitors with different resolutions in Windows applications, including VCL ones, is often fairly…
10.3 Rio T-Shirt Design Contest Winners
November 14, 2018
We had a lot of great entries in ourRAD Studio 10.3 Rio t-shirt design contest. The top 10 most popular designers,based on community vote, and 10 random voters are winning a shirt with the design we selected from the top designs. Here are the top 3 designs based…
New in RAD Studio 10.3: Options Dialog Improvements
November 9, 2018
In RAD Studio 10.3, we’re making a number of great improvements to the user interface and usability. Concretely, that’s not just looks: we are carefully making improvements in how to interact with the IDE. Last week, we looked at changes in the main window, where it is…
Custom Managed Records Coming in Delphi 10.3
November 8, 2018
Beside inline variable declarations, Delphi 10.3 is going to offer another new Object Pascal language extension, custom managed records
Beside inline variable declaration, as explained in my recent blog post, the coming 10.3 version of Delphi will have another relevant…
Android Z-Order, Native Controls, and 10.3 Rio
November 7, 2018
Before 10.3 Rio, you couldn’t put other controls on top of a platform-native control like TWebBrowser or TMediaPlayer, The stacking of controls is referred to as Z-Order. This was especially annoying when used with the TMultiView (one of my favorite controls)…
New in 10.3: IDE UI Improvements in the Main Window
October 31, 2018
In recent RAD Studio releases, we’ve paid a lot of attention to the IDE’s user interface. In 10.2.2, we added a dark theme (one of the most popular changes we’ve made!) and updated the component icons.
In RAD Studio 10.3, we have a number of further UI upgrades we’re…
Webinar Replay: Simplify Data Change Tracking with InterBase
October 18, 2018
On October 17, I did an InterBase webinar on using Change Views to simplify data change tracking. Change Views allows you to reduce your network traffic, keep mobile data costs down and speed up your development time by syncing only the changes you subscribe to.
As…


