In Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio 10 Seattle, we provide a variety of new VCL styles and VCL style enhancements.
Windows 10 Styles
Choose from three built-in Windows 10 styles: Modern Light, Modern Dark and Modern Blue. These styles work great with the new VCL Windows 10 UI controls as well as the existing VCL UI controls.
Common Dialog Styling
VCL styling now extends to dialogs such…
Author: Brian Alexakis
Windows 10 VCL Controls
Quickly and Easily Bring Your VCL App to Windows 10
Trusted by millions of developers worldwide, the VCL (Visual Component Library) is a set of visual components for rapid development of Windows…
During today’s Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10 Seattle launch webinar, I got a question on how to add headers to TListView programmatically instead of using LiveBindings with a data source.
Here is a quick code snippet showing how to programmatically add TListView…
With the RAD Studio 10 Seattle release, we introduced 5 new VCL UI controls. These controls were specifically designed for Windows 10 and address common UI paradigms on Windows 10. While they were designed for Windows 10, the new VCL controls will also work with older versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and Windows 8.
As you can see in the screenshot above, we provide 3 new Windows 10 VCL…
Adding a [FixedLength] Attribute in Code-First Entity Framework
August 17, 2015
Author: Craig Stuntz
In Code First Entity Framework models, you can define the length of a string field with StringLengthAttribute, but you have to write code in OnModelCreating to indicate a CHAR/NCHAR fixed length field:
public class MyEntity
{
[Key]
public int Id {…
Several developers reporting an issue where the C++Builder IDE code editor structure window was blank after they upgraded their Windows machine to Windows 10. The issue is reproducible on these scenarios:
The user has a machine with a Windows version lower than Windows 10 (Windows 8.1, 8, 7,…)
The user has RAD Studio installed (all versions are affected)
The user upgrades to Windows 10
In…
Author: Developer Skill Sprints
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Using an HTTP Client
System.Net.HttpClient
XE8 Code Samples: HttpDownload
Samples\Object Pascal\RTL\HttpDownload
Samples\CPP\RTL\HttpDownload
XE8 Product Reviewers Guide
Code Central Code…
Author: Embarcadero USA
Here are 10 quick SQL Server tips and tricks for database developers compiled by SQL Server expert Pinal Dave.
For inefficient query plans: Check for issues with bad cardinality estimates.
The maximum degree of parallelism can be limited server-wide…
Delphi VCL and FireMonkey: eBooks, Books, Tutorials and Courseware - a collection of links
July 6, 2015
We are often asked where developers and teachers can find books, courseware and tutorials available today that cover Delphi programming and Multi-Device FireMonkey app development. The great news is that there are more and more books appearing on Amazon, Lulu and online. Here is my latest list of books, courseware and tutorials from book shopping sites and developer sites.
ebooks
Mobile…
