Welcome to the second blog post in the ‘Learning to program with C++Builder’ series – a set of five articles taking you from knowing nothing about C++ to writing a real-world, useful application. The first entry covered installing C++Builder Community. Now it’s time to start using it! Today, we’ll cover the tools you use, creating your first app, and basic debugging.
Understanding…
Secrets Of FireDAC: Dynamic Where Clause Using Conditional Substitution Macros
July 19, 2018
If you are using FireDAC and building your SQL queries manually you may be using more verbose code than is needed. FireDAC has a feature called Macros which allows you to do a variable substitution in your SQL query similar to parameter substitution but for raw SQL. However…
Author: Craig Chapman
What is darkVulkanGen?
A handful of months back, I began working on a game engine for Delphi named darkGlass.
see:
http://chapmanworld.com/darkglass/
https://github.com/chapmanworld/DarkGlass
At that time I’d intended to write the rendering part of…
Author: Rebekah D
Get started programming with our Community Editions!
Community Edition is our full-featured and free IDE to build applications for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS from a single codebase using the robust and easy-to-learn Delphi language. It’s the perfect way to get started learning a new programming language or explore multi-device app development. Embarcadero’s…
Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition: Part 4 - Designing User Interfaces
July 18, 2018
Last time we have talked about the importance of app architecture and layers of code. David went one step further and started to build user interface for our calculator apps. This week I’m going to catch up and we will discuss designing user interfaces (UI) for our…
Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition: Part 2 - Building and Debugging
July 17, 2018
In the first post we covered the installation of Delphi Community Edition. The best way to learn something is to start using it to build something useful, but not too complicated. Today we will start creating a “calculator” application that we will use as a vehicle to…
Learn to Program with Delphi Community Edition: Part 1 - Introduction and Installation
July 17, 2018
This blog post is the beginning of the “Learn to Program in Delphi” series. We are expecting that you have some previous experience in programming, but not in Delphi. In this five part series we are going to take you through the process of building a simple “calculator” application.
This series has a counterpart in C++ using the same example project, so head over here if…
Embarcadero has just released a performance patch for the RAD Studio 10.2.3 version of RAD Server, our REST-basedweb service hosting architecture.
Getting The RAD Server Optimization Patch
This patch is available athttp://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30838 and…
IBLite is the localversion of the InterBase database you canembed in your mobile and desktop applications. RAD Studio has full deployment support, so you can easily deploy the required file with your app, both for debug and for store deployment (see image below).
Years ago I worked at a company that maintained a Point of Sale (POS) system written in Delphi. I wasn’t involved in that project (I was developing a medication management system for an assisted living facility), but talking with some of the developers that were working on it I learned that Delphi is very popular in many different vertical markets, specifically Point of Sale systems. So I’m…
