Despite the release of Windows 11 back in October 2021, Windows 10 is still the most popular version of the operating system. Although most people will update, many may avoid updating due to software compatibility issues. Therefore, targeting Windows 10 development will currently give you the most extensive customer base, and later on, you can change your development focus to Windows 11.
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There are dozens of Windows software makers; the powerful tools and programming languages used to create Windows GUI applications. Most of them require you to write thousands of lines of code to do even the most basic tasks, such as drawing UI elements. Yes, several of them…
The Windows operating system is the most used desktop operating system in the World. Windows 11 launched with a substantial firestorm of publicity from Microsoft. With the new innovations such as the excellent Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) there seems to be a large…
The modern-day software development industry is going through a challenging time — a falling productivity crisis. Each year this problem becomes more evident and increasingly manifests itself in a variety of ways.
This productivity drain problem has a number of…
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…
Increasing technological advances are changing the software development world as we know it, whether that is pure native Windows development or a more blended approach targeting multiple device types. If you don’t keep up there’s a definite nagging doubt that you…
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…
C++ is subjectively the World’s most powerful programming language and consistently one of the world’s top four most popular programming languages. Thanks to it’s huge range of ready-made variables, functions, methods, namespaces and libraries it’s the…
While the idea of integrated development environments (IDE software) dates back to 1983 when Borland launched TurboPascal, the first-ever editor-compiler integration, many believe the IDE wave really started with Microsoft’s Visual Basic and Delphi in the 1990s. Long…
Microsoft’s .Net is one of the most popular technologies used by businesses to power mission-critical digital services. Millions of developers use C#, ASP.Net, etc., to develop different types of widely used software solutions, primarily for Windows development. Solutions…
