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Updating IDE Subversion DLLs to address security issues

Recently a security issue allowing allowing local code execution after visiting a malicious URL was identified in Subversion, git and Mercurial. All three source control systems released a synchronised security update. In RAD Studio, we use an external installation of both git and Mercurial, which you point the IDE to in the Options dialog. (Tools > Options > Version Control, and then either…
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A Busy Summer!

It was a busy summer. There has been so much happening lately that it is difficult to decide where to start. Earlier this year we launched the milestone RAD Studio 10.2 (aka Tokyo). This August we released Update 10.2.1 that provided a number of highly anticipated quality…
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Expert Delphi Webinars with Paweł Glowacki

Paweł Glowacki’s book Expert Delphi and he is hosting a couple webinars where he will share some of the best parts. Expert Delphi – Part 1 Tue, September 12, 2017 at8 AM, 1 PM, 8 PM CDT Join Paweł for the tour through the first part of his recently…
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Hotfix for 10.2.1 Inherited VCL Forms Released

This hotfix addresses a bug introduced in RAD Studio 10.2.1 and reported as RSP-18792 in Quality Portal. The issue causes an inherited VCL form to fail to scale on high DPI displays. Actually the fix resolves also a couple of related problems. The download is available athttps://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30798 Notice that even if the changes is for only a few lines of source code, the…
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Using Delphi Parse API with Any Parse Server Hosting

The Parse web site (owned by Facebook) was retired earlier this year. This was a fairly popular BaaS (backend as a service) provider for mobile applications, but something you could use also from desktop apps. Delphi (and also C++Builder, btw) has included ready-to-use…
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Sencha aquired by Embarcadero (Idera)

Author: Pawe Gowacki It was in the bus on Monday, on the last day of my summer vacation. Catching up with news on my phone that was switched off for the last two weeks. A thrilling news! IDERA acquires web application development provider Sencha Probably in the short term nothing will change in how Embarcadero and Sencha operates, but in the long term there could be some very interesting synergies…
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