CodeDelphiNews

Do All Your Windows Applications Look Like A Computer Virus?

OK, so you’ve written something brilliant, The Next Big Thing.  You’re taking a modern approach.  You’ve read up – or watched – our series on Fluent UI and maybe even applied a few visual things like the neo-skeuomorphism we learned about at the Desktop First conference.  Perhaps you’ve applied some VCL themes to your app and integrated the ability to detect Windows 10 dark…
Read more
News

Ribbon Controls in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin

Author: John T. Haller A few Delphi and C++Builder developers who moved to 10.1 Berlin are wondering what happened to the VCL Ribbon controls and how to get them. Here is the full story. A Tale of the Fluent UI (or Office UI) Let me start from the beginning, while trying to…
CodeDelphiRAD Studio

The Top 5 Misconceptions About Windows Program Development

The Windows operating system is the most used desktop operating system in the World. Windows 11 launched with a substantial firestorm of publicity from Microsoft. With the new innovations such as the excellent Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) there seems to be a large uptick in interest from coders looking to Windows program development. Microsoft have consolidated their position as the dominant…
Read more
DelphiIDE

6 Books About Delphi You Should Read

Reading is an essential skill for Windows application development. Development is a nebulous and constantly expanding subject and I’ve noticed that the most successful coders, project managers and designers are often readers with a voracious appetite for consuming…
DelphiTech Partner

Native thumbnail and preview functionality for your software: ShellBrowser Delphi Components

The pain of finding the right file Let’s be honest: Searching for files in the file explorer or on your desktop can be very annoying. Especially if you are looking for a certain picture of – let’s say – your last holiday trip to Italy. Luckily, previews are a thing for a while now! The busy software user expects your program to present him or her a little preview of the file…
Read more
Delphi

25 years of excellence

Trying to sum up what a programming language and software authoring system like Delphi represents, spanning 25 years no less, is almost insurmountable. Where should I begin? Groundbreaking object orientation? Event driven architecture? A thriving component market? Or perhaps a technological wingspan that stretches from x86 assembly-language to high-performance ARM mobile applications? Instead of…
Read more