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jqGrid and XSS Security

Author: Craig Stuntz Version 3.5.2 of jqGrid included an important new feature: Now when autoencode is set to true we encode the data coming from server and not only when we post it (secutity fix) Prior to this, you were required to encode the data yourself. Now personally, I think that should be the default. But it would have been a breaking change for the grid, since there are a few cases where…
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Code Navigation In The RAD Studio Code Editor

Author: Darren Kosinski V1400 During the recent field test for RAD Studio 2010, I had a discussion with some field testers about the different mechanisms that the IDE provides for navigating through your source code. In particular, they were wondering why sometimes one…
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JSON Types for Server Methods in DataSnap 2010

Author: Adrian Z1428 converter_1946 I am very happy I was granted permission to talk about the new features present in Delphi 2010 concerning database area. DataSnap 2010 (DS2010) extended the list of server method parameter types with the full suite of JSON types. It is now…
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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Search and Formatting

Author: Craig Stuntz This is the fourth post in a series on using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC. Today, we’re going to examine search and formatting results. I will implement a search feature and fix the problem with formatting date columns which I observed in the last post. I’ve updated the demo solution with these new features, and also fixed a bug reported by Andrey last time. If…
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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: LINQ Extensions

Author: Craig Stuntz Mere hours after I posted the first in a planned series of posts on using jqGrid in ASP.NET MVC applications, Phil Haack, a rather-more-widely-read-ASP.NET-MVC-blogger, wrote a long post on, er, exactly the same thing. Who, me, bitter? Naahhh… 🙂 But…
Delphi

Building and consuming web services with Delphi 2009

Author: Pawe Gowacki Do you remember that Delphi 6 was the first IDE in the market with Web Services support? This trend continues and Delphi 2009 supports building web service servers and clients:-) In this post I’m going to describe all steps neccessary to build simple web service server and client applications in Delphi 2009. Building “Simple Calculator” web service…
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A "Nullable" Post

Author: Barry K21557 [This blog post is by Allen Bauer, but during the blog engine migration was attributed to the wrong author.] Solving problems can be fun and challenging. What is really challenging is solving a problem using only the tools at hand. During the development…
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Multicast events using generics

Author: Allen Ever since before Delphi 1, the (then Delphi only) RAD Studio IDE has been full of home-grown multicast event class types. I usually refer to these as an “event bus.” This is from my hardware days when I designed microcontroller based…
Delphi

Making "Stay-on-top-forms" do want you want

Author: Embarcadero USA Delphi supports this type of forms by providing the FormStyle property for the TForm class. All you have to do is to set this property to fsStayOnTop. So why did I write this article? Well, there are a few things to consider: Using fsStayOnTop causes flickering of the form, because it recreates the window handle. If you have a Stay-On-Top-Form (ok, we’ll call…
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