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 books on everything they possibly can to keep feeding a hunger for knowledge. Unlike a waistline, expanding your mind is rarely seen…
The 14th of February is just around the corner, and while for many that means chocolates and flowers, we know the true meaning: Delphi’s birthday!
The theme of Delphi’s 27th anniversary is Building the Future! It is always great to tell the story of how you…
The C++ Compiler and C++ IDE features really evolved from the early and auspicious beginnings of Turbo C, C++ and Borland C++. Today we have a wide array of capabilities supporting a rich and diverse amount of OS platforms running on many thousands of types of devices…
.NET Apps using Embedded Interbase Database - How to deploy a secure database app with zero installation/administration
February 4, 2022
And we are back! This is a new entry from the series about Interbase for .NET developers. Doing a recap, the first post “Introducing InterBase for .NET – A Super-Secure Embedded Data Warehouse For .NET Users” can be found here, the second post “Getting Started With…
1995 is a very important year in the history of Delphi. On February 14 of that year the first version of Delphi was released for 16-bit Windows 3.1 as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool.
Delphi came as a departure from its predecessor, Borland’s Turbo Pascal for…
Windows 11 is fast reaching the point where it’s impossible to ignore if you want to carry out c++ app development with Builder C++ or target Windows users with your apps. Despite the more rigorous hardware requirements, which meant that not every user could immediately…
RAD Studio 11 Alexandria comes with a wealth of new super features to boost your productivity and give you access to new services and advances capabilities. The best new features include support for High-DPI 4k screens, provisioning for Windows 11, design-time views of…
Developer environment tools improve the speed and quality of coding with features like auto-completion, debugging, and emulation. They influence factors like development time, and the need (or lack thereof) to make future updates and bug fixes. RAD Studio, for example, comes…
Desktop applications are the most productive apps for the majority of ordinary people. From scientific apps to applications which power user’s creativity, Windows desktop applications lead the market. Moreover, the new Windows 11 has big changes that can ramp up Windows…
Windows 11 added full GUI and X windows support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2).
In this post, you’ll join a webinar to learn more about WSL2, how it works, how to properly configure it, and how to target it in your application development. Without the need for…
