I have just returned from myRAD Studio XE3 World Tour stops in Europe. It was great to see so many young and old developers in London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Heidelberg. In two cities I was asked whether there were any Object Relational Mapping solutions for Delphi. There are two Delphi ORM(s) that I know about:
TMS Software’s TMS Aurelius – commercial ORM.
For those of you who need to learn more about Delphi programming, Alister Christie (http://learndelphi.tv/)who is one of our Embarcadero MVPs, has 74 free Delphi tutorial videos and a long form training videos “Building Applications in Delphi Using the Visual…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Have you ever written a component in Delphi? Reusable components are the corner-stone of rapid application development and important part of Delphi success on the market. Being able to manipulate an instance of a class at design-time is where Delphi…
Although there is a huge amount that is the same for Delphi and C++ Builder developers between VCL and FireMonkey, one thing that has changed is the FireMonkey grids.
FireMonkey Grid Example
After a recent question at an event, I thought I would put a little demo together to help understand some of the changes that come with the new style grid in FireMonkey.
Having come from a VCL background and…
Author: Eusebio M40205
The problem
appeared when discussing “Scalability of enterprise DBMS-targeted systems” (in English on massive demand in comments) with Dmitriy Kouzmenko, Russian expert in InterBase since its origin. Then this occasional topic called more…
VCL App calling a FireMonkey DLL
We have had a lot of questions on the road show tour about how to mix Fire Monkey and VCL. Although this is not officially supported, a number of blogs have started to appear with ways to do this.
One way that is appropriate to add additional…
Reading and writing files from an iOS FireMonkey application
October 4, 2011
Author: dragonhome
Here’s an example of how you can read and write files in your iOS FireMonkey application.
Enjoy!
{$IFDEF FPC}
var
content : NSString;
{$ENDIF}
{$IFDEF FPC}
function MyFileName : NSString;
var
paths : NSArray;
fileName : NSString;
begin
paths := NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, True);
fileName :=…
LiveBindings: Fill a TListBox from a TClientDataSet at design time
September 30, 2011
Author: Jim T1392
TBindList can iterate throughthe records in a TClientDataSet and fill a TListBox. Here is how toconfigure TBindListin the designer.
Drop a TClientDataSet and a TDataSource on a form. Load some data into the dataset such as…
Author: Tóth Erik
Delphi XE2 is probably the most significant release since Delphi 1. The number of new features is amazing and probably the biggest, most important one is FireMonkey – a brand new business application development platform that let you use Delphi…
Author: Craig Stuntz
I helped another developer debug an interesting problem this morning. Let’s see if you can spot the problem. The code in question looked something like this simplified version containing only enough code to show the problem:
public void Execute()
{
DoStuff(); // breakpoint 1
}
public IEnumerable<Coordinate> DoStuff()
{
…
