Desktop applications have been undervalued for a long time. All attention was reserved for web and mobile. While both Microsoft and Apple made strides to evolve the desktop, there has been far less energy and economic momentum behind that platform. Today the maturity of web and mobile, as well as new use cases in collaboration and AI, are fueling a rediscovery of desktops. After all, desktops…
Developing client applications using RESTful master-detail data with TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter
December 24, 2019
This is part 3 in my series of developing an REST server and client application and will focus around using the TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter.
In my last two posts, we have created a REST server with a fully documented API using YAML, and exposed 3 datasets with master…
In RAD Studio 10.2.2, we’ve made a number of great quality improvements for the C++ toolchain and for the debugger for both C++ and Delphi.
Debugger
Linux:many fixes when evaluating, especially when passing records or arrays
Android: Android debugging was broken…
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 which other threads, was not working on Windows 10. We have re-enabled support and you can now debug thread interaction…
Quickly Build A Cross Platform Low Code Christmas Movie REST API Client With Delphi FireMonkey
December 23, 2016
Author: EAE
It is quick and easy to build a REST client with Delphi. I wanted to build out a Christmas themed project in Delphi and what better way than to build a Christmas Movie finder app. I wanted to build this app so that it was cross platform and would run on Android…
I was thinking about how I would do a gender based analysis of our customer database without surveying our customers. The Embarcadero Community profile does not ask whether you are male or female. At the recent Evans Data Developer Relations Conference, there was a…
Using the new REST Client library components to connect to Web & Cloud services (Part 2)
November 9, 2013
Author: Al M1426
This REST BaaS (Backend as a Service) client tutorial shows how to use the Embarcadero REST Library for accessing REST-based web services (REST stands for Representational State Transfer). The library is available for all platforms that are supported by Delphi. The REST Library framework focuses on JSON as the representation format. XML is not explicitly supported.
In Part 1, we…
Back in 2019, David I wrote a fantastic guide to RAD Server that has been very popular in helping developers develop new, and migrate older systems towards a RESTful architecture. There have been a number of updates to RAD Server since the guide was originally launched…
As a software developer, if you are focused on an application development project, as a professional you want to focus only on your project, your code, the UI, and your application’s runtime requirements. If your IDE is hard to handle it can cost a lot of time on…
1. Download the latest C++ Builder 11 (RAD Studio 11) Community Edition / Professional / Architect / Enterprise
C++ Builder is the easiest and fastest C and C++ IDE for building everything from simple to professional applications on the Windows, macOS, and iOS operating systems. It is also easy for beginners to learn with its wide range of samples, tutorials, help files and LSP support for…
