FireDAC is Embarcadero’s library for universal data access – connection to just about any database protocol you can find. It abstracts the protocol-level details and presents a common interface so developers can build their applications to be database agnostic and flexible in the event of future design changes.
My work this week focused on FireDAC and local databases. SQLite is…
Quickly And Easily Add MAPI Support Using Winsoft's MAPI for Delphi on Windows
October 26, 2020
Embarcadero Tech Partner WINSOFT provides an easy to use MAPI suite for Delphi.
What makes MAPI hard?
MAPI is hard. There is lack of clear and consistent coding, different answers provide different solutions, the solution is not in Delphi, there has to be various…
Build High-Speed Direct Access Apps In Delphi And C++Builder To Most Modern Databases Using FireDAC
October 26, 2020
FireDAC is a unique set of Universal Data Access Components for developing multi-device database applications for Delphi and C++Builder. With its powerful common architecture, FireDAC enables native high-speed direct access from Delphi to InterBase, SQLite, MySQL, SQL…
Embarcadero has updated the Docker configurations for Linux with PAServer and with RAD Server (with and without InterBase), so that they include the latest version of the installers. The new Docker scripts have been published in the public GitHub project…
TheMacrossample shows you how to use theMacrosproperty ofTFDQueryin order to parameterize parts of the SQL query. The sample allows you to modify the macro values at run time.
Location
You can find theMacrossample project…
Learn How To Easily Customize The Appearance Of A ListView In This Delphi Sample App
October 26, 2020
Some of the use case needs to view the Multi Details Appearance for a List item in a ListView .e.g Selecting Multiple items Add or Delete from a List with Multi Detail information.Delphi/C++ Builderoffers robust components to do the job at design time or runtime…
Optimize Database Population Performance With Array DML In Delphi
October 25, 2020
This sample demonstrates how to use Array DML in FireDAC and compares its performance for different array sizes.
Location
You can find theArrayDMLsample project at:
Start | Programs | Embarcadero RAD Studio Sydney | Samplesand then navigate to:Object Pascal\Database\FireDAC\Samples\Comp Layer\TFDQuery\ExecSQL\ArrayDMLSubversion Repository:You can find Delphi code…
Quick Way To Bind Your Database To UI Components With BindLinkVCL Delphi Sample App
October 24, 2020
The BindLinkVCL Sample demonstrates the use of a TBindLink. In general, it is used for linking operations, for example, linking dataset fields to various lists.
You can find Delphi and C++ code samples inGitHub Repositories. Search by name into the samples…
Comprehensive Music Theory and Ear Training App Built In Delphi
October 23, 2020
With almost 3,000 lessons created by music teachers for beginners to professional musicians playing any instrument, EarMaster is a comprehensive, consumer-grade app with extraordinary functionality that uses a variety of different technologies. Despite the app’s…
Learn How To Create A Custom List View Adapter With A Python Server In This Sample For Delphi
October 23, 2020
Location
You can find theCustomAdaptersample project at:
Start | Programs | Embarcadero RAD Studio Sydney | Samplesand navigate to:Object Pascal\Multi-Device Samples\User Interface\ListView\CustomAdapterSubversion Repository:You can find Delphi code samples inGitHub Repositories. Search by name into the samples repositories according to your RAD Studio…
