Hotfix for 10.2.1 Inherited VCL Forms Released
September 6, 2017
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…
RAD Server Solution Series: [Hospitality] Restaurant Survey Application
September 1, 2017
RAD Server is a turn-key application foundation for rapidly building and deploying services based applications. RAD Server enables developers to quickly build new application back-ends or migrate existing Delphi or C++ client/server business logic to a modern services based…
Using Delphi Parse API with Any Parse Server Hosting
August 30, 2017
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 components for interfacing Parse APIs for quite some time. It was very easy to set up an account on the system and create an app.
Sencha aquired by Embarcadero (Idera)
August 30, 2017
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…
Enterprise Connectors Released Today
August 29, 2017
After a successful beta for the past couple of months, I am excited to announce that the CData Enterprise Connectors have been released.
The 30 day Trial versions can be downloaded via the GetIt Package Manager (Tools > GetIt Package Manager > Connectors) in RAD…
RAD Studio 10.2.1 HotFix for iOS AdHoc Deployment
August 23, 2017
We released a hotfix to address a regression (reported as https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-18813) in RAD Studio Tokyo Release 1 related to AdHoc deployment for iOS. The fix available for download is at:
https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30797
The fix (a single file to install) adds support for building iOS Ad Hoc Applications with RAD Studio 10.2.1 and Xcode 8.2, 8.3.2, or 8.3.3. Before…
New in RAD Studio 10.2.1: Debugger Quality
August 17, 2017
In RAD Studio 10.2Release 1 (or 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements in the debugger.
Windows debugging: general quality
Do you debug multithreaded applications? You might have noticed that wait chain traversal, showing which threads were blocked on…
Windows App Modernization with RAD Studio Tokyo
August 16, 2017
With RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, you can easily update your existing application and give it a modern Windows 10 look and feel. In today’s post, I thought I would highlight our Windows 10 support to help you move your existing applications forward.
Windows 10 VCL GUI…
Workaround for FMX Memory Leaks on Windows in 10.2.1
August 16, 2017
Many of our customers today write FireMonkey Windows applications. We recently got some customer reports on FMX memory leaks on Windows using RAD Studio 10.2 Release 1 (or Tokyo Release 1). The issue is reported at https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-18774 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45588741/delphi-recompiling-application-with-10-2-1-causes-memory-leaks.
If you encounter such…