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RAD Studio 10.2.1 HotFix for iOS AdHoc Deployment

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…
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New in RAD Studio 10.2.1: Debugger Quality

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…
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Windows App Modernization with RAD Studio Tokyo

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…
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Workaround for FMX Memory Leaks on Windows in 10.2.1

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…
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Why I Keep Choosing Delphi

Early on I learned Turbo Pascal, which was a huge step up from the Basic and Batch Fileprogramming I cut mywhitening on. When Delphi came along I thought it was brilliant and fell in love immediately. I had no interest in learning other programming languages or…
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New in RAD Studio 10.2.1: C++ Improvements

In Tokyo Release 1 (otherwise known as 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements toour C++ support: a small but useful change in the IDE, and some significant improvements in the toolchain itself. Toolchain: compiler, linker, etc Debugging and viewing…
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Creators Update BPL Loading Issue and Tokyo Release 1

As mentioned in the release notes of Tokyo 10.2.1, the latest release of RAD Studio addresses the issues caused by Windows 10 Creators Update and related with DLL and BPL loading. The issue is caused by a change (a bug!)in the DLL loading algorithm of the operating system, an issue that Microsoft has fixed in the new coming release of Windows 10, currently known as Fall Creators Update.
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Thought Controlled Drone in Tokyo

While I was in Tokyo for the Tokyo launch I worked with the Embarcadero office there to make a new BCI demo video. This is using the Emotiv EPOC wireless EEG headset to read cognitive thought patterns, which are transmitted wirelessly to the laptop and the Delphi powered…
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New in RAD Studio 10.2.1: CodeGuard for Windows 8 and 10

CodeGuard is a tool for runtime error checking in a C++ application, and catches memory leaks, invalid handles, invalid memory use (such as writing past the end of a buffer), pointer validation, accessing freed memory and resources, and more. If you’ve never used it, check out the list ofruntime errors it will find, andpotential memory access problems it will warn…
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