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Delphi JSON Viewer

Author: Michael K22532 JSON support has been introduced in Delphi 2010 as a part of DBExpress database driver architecture, but of course JSON support is not limited to just database applications. JSON is similar to XML as both are text-based data interchange formats. Delphi 6 introduced “TXMLDocument” component and the “XML Data Binding Wizard” to make it easier to work with XML documents…
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What is Homomorphic Encryption And Why Should I Care? (Updated)

Updated: 28 November, 2021 Author: Craig Stuntz What Is Homomorphic Encryption? “Homomorphic” is an adjective which describes a property of an encryption scheme. That property, in simple terms, is the ability to perform computations on the ciphertext without decrypting it first. Because this tends to sound either baffling or miraculous the first time you hear it, let’s begin…
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jqGrid and XSS Security

Author: Craig Stuntz Version 3.5.2 of jqGrid included an important new feature: Now when autoencode is set to true we encode the data coming from server and not only when we post it (secutity fix) Prior to this, you were required to encode the data yourself. Now personally…
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Code Navigation In The RAD Studio Code Editor

Author: Darren Kosinski V1400 During the recent field test for RAD Studio 2010, I had a discussion with some field testers about the different mechanisms that the IDE provides for navigating through your source code. In particular, they were wondering why sometimes one…
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JSON Types for Server Methods in DataSnap 2010

Author: Adrian Z1428 converter_1946 I am very happy I was granted permission to talk about the new features present in Delphi 2010 concerning database area. DataSnap 2010 (DS2010) extended the list of server method parameter types with the full suite of JSON types. It is now possible to pass a TJSONObject instance for example from a client process to a server as input or output parameter and…
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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: LINQ Extensions

Author: Craig Stuntz Mere hours after I posted the first in a planned series of posts on using jqGrid in ASP.NET MVC applications, Phil Haack, a rather-more-widely-read-ASP.NET-MVC-blogger, wrote a long post on, er, exactly the same thing. Who, me, bitter? Naahhh… 🙂 But it turns out that we’re using the grid in a different way, and I think the difference is important. So rather than…
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