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Enable Windows Portable Devices (WPD) feature in your Delphi and C++ Builder Projects!

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August 31, 2020
Overview The Windows Portable Devices (WPD) feature allows computers to communicate with the attached media and storage devices. With the WPD, you can explore a device, for instance, smartphones, flash USB cards, and many more. If you want to enable the WPD feature in your Delphi and C++ Builder Windows application, you can utilize the Portable library by WINSOFT to connect WPD Application…
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Aircraft Tracking Dashboard - Cool Apps Selection

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May 20, 2020
The Cool Apps awards are not just for consumer applications, they are also awarded when someone uses Delphi to help them do really cool things, and today’s selection is one of those. Today, we’re featuring a Balloon-based Aircraft Tracker from David…
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Getting Started with InterBase for RAD Users

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May 19, 2020
Most, if not all, of your applications will connect to some database backend.  For Delphi and C++Builder users, most have either used it previously or have heard of it. InterBase is a zero admin, small footprint database engine that offers enterprise grade database capabilities like granular transparent database encryption, powerful access control, point-in-time recovery and patented data change…
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VCL Per-Control Styles - New in RAD Studio 10.4

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May 15, 2020
In the past, the VCL library allowed a developer to select one style (or no style) for the entire application. In 10.4 the VCL library allows you to use multiple VCL styles at the same time in different forms of your applications, or even different controls of the same…
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New VCL TEdgeBrowser Component in RAD Studio 10.4

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May 12, 2020
RAD Studio 10.4 brings support for working with web content through a new Chromium-based Edge browser control in VCL applications. The new TEdgeBrowser component wraps the Microsoft WebView2 component. TEdgeBrowser supersedes TWebBrowser, which uses the Internet Explorer web…
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Adopting the OpenJDK for Delphi Android Development

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May 12, 2020
In this post, you’ll learn how to install OpenJDK, which is required for using the Windows IDE for Android development. Continue reading to learn why you should use the OpenJDK and how it can help your development journey. You might not realize it, but Java comes in a variety of flavors and parts. Oracle became the official owner of the Java trademark and the main…
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Custom Managed Records New in Delphi 10.4 Sydney

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May 8, 2020
RAD Studio and Delphi 10.4 Sydney are available now! What is a Managed Record in Delphi? Records in Delphi can have fields of any data type. When a record has plain (non-managed) fields, like numeric or other enumerated values there isn’t much to do for the compiler.
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CEF32 Emulator Framework - Cool Apps Selection

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April 22, 2020
Today’s Cool Apps selection is CEF32 Emulator Framework, from Alan Conroy. CEF32 is a framework that allows users to emulate hardware configurations, and create their own emulators as well. Delphi and the VCL were key to its development, and Alan did a great job with the…
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Unicode Finder - Embarcadero Cool Apps Selection

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April 18, 2020
Today’s Cool Apps selection is Unicode Finder, from SAGT3K. As the name suggests, Unicode Finder is a utility that allows you to explore the Unicode database to find characters, symbols, and emojis to use in text settings. It was developed in RAD Studio using Delphi and the FireMonkey multi-device framework. Users are given multiple options to search and interact with the database, and as the…
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