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Cool App Winner for September: RAD & Installer

I’m excited to announce that our September Cool App contest winner for September is RAD & Installer. While I continue to be impressed at how all our Cool App winners are providing interesting, useful, entertaining and generally “cool” capabilities, I admittedly have a soft spot for apps like RAD & Installer that improve the usability of one of our very own Embarcadero tools, in this…
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Delphi

What is my IP address?

Author: Pawe Gowacki There are many situation when it would handy to know the IP address of a device where our app is running. Maybe you want to identify who is running your app? By IP address it is also possible to calculate the approximate location of a device. If you…
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Implementing AJAX and JSONP Support in RAD Server for ExtJS

Idera recently acquired Sencha (https://www.sencha.com/) and has added the company products to the Embarcadero business unit, which produced RAD Studio and also the RAD Server web service technology. A natural question arises on how to use the two products together. While…
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New in 10.2.1: Debug visualisers for Delphi generics

Debug visualisers are a type of IDE plugin that allows you to changethe display of a variable in the various debug windows (Local Variables, Watches, Inspector, and Evaluate/Modify.) For example, the TDateTime visualiser takes the double value that represents time and…
C++

How to enqueue TQueue from TTask with bcc32

Author: h.mohri When considering migration from oldC++Builder 10.2 Tokyobcc32project.You can use functions such asTThread::CreateAnonymousThread()andTTasktoimprove performance.In addition toTCriticalSection, you can also useSystem.TMonitorwhich supports multiple devices.I will show you how to programbcc32project using…
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C++

RAD Studio 10.2: Windows 10 VCL UWP/WinRT Support

Windows 10 VCL Universal Windows Platform (UWP)/WinRT Services and Components has been added to the Run Time Library (RTL). For example, the Windows 10 Notifications Componentand Windows 10 Sharing/Contract Component, for both Object Pascal and C++ is included in RAD…
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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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