It seemed like many people thought Windows 7 was great and Microsoft should stop there. However, Microsoft recognized that what people thought of as their primary computing device was changing. Apple’s iPad and the inexorable rise of the mobile phone meant people were starting to interact with the internet and the new streaming services in ways which threatened Microsoft’s…
The most recent version of Windows, Windows 11, was released in October 2021. It is critical that you update your applications to support it. RAD Studio 11, Delphi 11, and C++Builder 11 previously supported Windows 11. Let’s take a look at our top ten How-for…
How Are Delphi And Electron Licenses Alike And How Do They Differ?
February 27, 2022
Delphi and Electron licenses differ significantly. In fact, in some ways, they are diametrically opposed. The benchmarking study cited in this blog post and the entire series of which is the seventh post looks at the similarities and differences between the two platforms.
This blog post compares the Delphi and Electron frameworks based on Application Store Deployment, specifically whether the framework’s IDE makes it easy to deploy directly to native platform application stores by reducing deployment complexities and shortening time-to-market. This post is part of a whitepaper benchmarking the two frameworks.
The “Discovering The Best Cross-Platform…
Alister Christie And Serge Pilko Talk Delphi, Part 1 of 3: Career Beginnings With Delphi
February 20, 2022
In the world of Delphi, Alister Christie needs no introduction. He is the author of the legendary “Code Faster in Delphi”, and the creator of hundreds of videos that showed many of today’s Delphi developers around the world how to program and accomplish things with…
The final build time metric in the “Discovering The Best Cross-Platform Framework Through Benchmarking” whitepaper measures the total amount of time required for the framework to produce the final build for the benchmark application. The whitepaper evaluates two…
A control or component is a user interface (UI) element that displays content or enables interaction. Components are the building blocks of the user interface. A ‘pattern’ is a recipe for combining several controls to make something new. This article gives a guide for Windows UI development and design guidance for better UI development with modern Windows UI toolkits.
The Delphi…
Delphi and C++ developers have a wide spectrum of available tools to help build solutions for their companies and customers. Beyond just the compiler, IDE, components and libraries, Embarcadero and Idera provide tools you can leverage to get development done faster and with…
Yesterday, on Delphi’s 27th anniversary Embarcadero released a WinUI 3 demo that I presented in the anniversary webinar. Here is the official announcement along with some more technical information. The demo is available in GetIt.
Introduction
Microsoft’s Windows App…
Grab Your HUGE Delphi Anniversary “Innovation Timeline” Infographic!
February 14, 2022
Are you interested in seeing how your preferred programming language has progressed over time and what additional innovations it has enabled? Is Delphi tearing your curly brackets apart, or has C# sharpened your skills? Do you remember the various phones you’ve had throughout the years? Are you an Android phone fanatic or an Apple aficionado? When Candy Crush was first released, what Android…
