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New in RAD Studio 10.2.1: Debugger Quality

In RAD Studio 10.2Release 1 (or 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements in the debugger. Windows debugging: general quality Do you debug multithreaded applications? You might have noticed that wait chain traversal, showing which threads were blocked on which other threads, was not working on Windows 10. We have re-enabled support and you can now debug thread interaction…
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Why I Keep Choosing Delphi

Early on I learned Turbo Pascal, which was a huge step up from the Basic and Batch Fileprogramming I cut mywhitening on. When Delphi came along I thought it was brilliant and fell in love immediately. I had no interest in learning other programming languages or…
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CAD with C++Builder, episode#1

Author: Seva Leonov Learning tasks and motivation When teaching programming skills, especially with C++, one of the main issue is the selection of right examples and tasks. C++ is not that easy both in syntax, and concepts, and sostudents are demotivated just by the…
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Easy Add Custom Component Icons in Delphi

Author: Pawe Gowacki I have just recently discovered a super easy way of adding custom icons to Delphi components. Traditionally you had to start from a rectangular bitmap of a specific size and color depth and then use Image Editor. This is documented in many places including Stackoverflow. After a little bit of googling I have come across another Stackoverflow post that inspired my to give…
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"Serverless Architectures on AWS" summer reading

Author: Pawe Gowacki Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released “Expert Delphi”, but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at.
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My "Expert Delphi" book published!

Author: Pawe Gowacki My “Expert Delphi” book has been published by PACKT Publishing and is currently available for a limited time for just $10at https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/expert-delphi.The book is about how to become developer…
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Changing a FireMonkey style at runtime

There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your applicationshowing how to have a FMX application with multiple style books, and a combo box listing the styles. When the app is running, a user can select one of the style in the combo box and the FireMonkey app will change style dynamically. However, the code sample is in Delphi, not C++. How do you do this in a…
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Save Time With This Quick LiveBindings Trick For Delphi And C++Builder

LiveBindings is a great technology built into Delphi and C++Builder for bypassing most of the code involved in aCRUD data cycle (Create, Read, Update and Delete Cycle). Itcan keep you out of massive amounts of technical debt. However, sometimes the standard LiveBindings method of binding some controls can be overly complex. You can easily simplify your LiveBindings by using an…
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