Delphi XE8 things I learned from the first week of G+ reading
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/15
- It has CHM help. Yay! The best new feature in XE8 can be seen by pressing F1. Oh, how did I miss a….
- GetIt is cool. Not NuGet level yet, but a good start. Is there any way to change the default GetIt URL for the Rest API….
- App Analytics is nice. Finally someone listened to Why Software Sucks by David S Platt and introduced some measurement.
- You need to pay for hotfixes. From the FAQ: Can I obtain updates and hotfixes without a subscription? An….
- This is causing some stir. Hello! I tried to add a new XE8 to the cart (I don’t actually have the money….
- Still ambivalent to VCS support in the IDE, but there are now Git Integration enhancements in RAD Studio XE8.
- Always install the full RAD studio; installing only limited personalities forgets a file: Do you have lib\iOSDevice64\Release\libsqlite.a in your XE8 installation? Or….
- Generics and arrays are slower. FireDAC has some incompatibilities: XE8 Findings Found some minor tweaks in XE8. Will add to this post as I find….
- Sort of transcript of the XE8 webinar: The Embarcadero webinar for what’s new in XE8 will start in about a minute.….
- Maybe Delphi apps become less design centric and easier to maintain:
- New approach of development of FireMonkey control “Control — Model — Presentation”. Part 2. TEdit with autocomplete | Brovin Yaroslav.
- New approach of development of FireMonkey control “Control – Model – Presentation”. Part 1 | Yaroslav Brovin – Google+.
- F0248 error sometimes means you wrote invalid code: Porting from XE7 to XE8: Internal Compiler Error F2048 using a interface in a….
- DBField optimisations can make your data centric apps a lot faster: Happy about DBField optimization in XE8 … This leads to a 25% performance….
{$IF defined(MSWINDOWS) and not defined(NEXTGEN)}– XE8 first impressions Installed RadStudio XE8 (Pro) last night and these are….- If they’d documented the #1 as being Unicode U+0001 START OF HEADING it would have made this much more clear: are you kidding me ? for years Embarcadero says that String is not a place to….
- Spring4D 1.2 will introduce the WeakReference type that does all that. Igor Belyh – Google+.
- Better disable Castalia for now. Anyone knows how to disable castalia in XE8? A lot of errors, IDE becomes….
- wuppdi·StylerXE8 tool for XE8 – Get rid of the wrong font size and blue toolbar | Andy’s Blog and Tools.
- DCU patches to get Byte-Strings for XE8’s mobile compilers | Andy’s Blog and Tools.
- TerraData connection is called TData. Good that FireDAC and IBX support ChangeViews. Database updates in Delphi XE8 & C++ Builder XE8.
- Nice Blog post “What’s New in Delphi XE8 for VCL developers” at….
- Not all “Work-as-Expected” resolutions actually fix the problem: Can someone please check if following issues still exist in XE8. JSON….
- No torrents, though publishing these with good SHA-1 hashes could make downloads a lot faster. Delphi Insider: Download Links for Delphi XE8, RAD Studio XE8 and C++Builder XE8.
- FMX Application termination doesn’t fully terminate… I’ve just noticed that IFMXApplicationService.Terminate doesn’t….
- Interface and Generic Class Helper support for Delphi are still wanted.
- Few memory leaks fixed when compiling large projects so the people having Very very annoying, XE7 is unusable! Out of memory, exceptions, very slow, etc.… need to wait longer.
- Castalia in XE8 does less than the full version for XE7 so What exactly are features in Castalia better than those in CnPack? but be careful: in XE8, CnPack 1.0.6.705 can bite Castalia: I have installed XE8 Trial ver. When starting XE8 I get an AV in….
- XE8 fixes the const string folding introduced in XE7: Is it already known that the XE7 Delphi compiler doesn’t collapse duplicate….
- REST.JSON (JsonObject) now breaks on Generic Lists with an
EConversionError‘Internal: TypetkPointeris not currently supported’: it seems in the DataSnap XE 8 transfer of TList class crashed, the problem….
Components and tools that work with XE8:
- ESBCS for VCL v6.6 is now available – and this includes support for the just….
- CnPack has released a version for XE8 – http://www.cnpack.org/index.php?lang=en.
- Parnassus Bookmarks supports XE8.
- OmniThreadLibrary works fine with XE8 is out ….
- Fixed by Code: Unofficial JEDI JCL and JVCL patch for Delphi XE8.
- The VCL Styles Utils is working fine under XE8. (All the tests passed) Check these screenshots with the new VCL Style glow included in RAD Studio XE8
- Cooking the next version the #Delphi IDE Colorizer with #XE8 support .
- Lots of !!! in Dear Developers, I’m pleased to announce the new main version of X-DBGrid….
- Feature: Added property collector for Delphi XE8. v1.6.0.131. Version 1.6 History | Continua CI.
- FinalBuilder 7.0.0.3291 Bug Fix – Delphi XE8 Options were not visible in the options dialog. Version History | FinalBuilder 7.
- SourceForge demos are ready: RAD Studio Demo Code / Code / [r1877] /branches/RadStudio_XE8.
- Delphi XE8 update for List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1 jeroenp / BeSharp.net / commit / ff7495b1363f — Bitbucket.
- XE8 Experimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-04-11 released » twm’s blog.
- XE8 ANN: WYSIWYG HTML Editor Released….
- FixInsight 2015.04 release. What’s New * Delphi XE8….
- XE8 support in kbmMW v. 4.80.00 Professional,….
- betas of MadExcept are usually very stable, the new MadExcept for XE8 From the madExcept forums….
- DevArt: A new version of #UniDAC is available..
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- Online Help for Appmethod 1.16 Appmethod Topics.
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Wilfred Oluoch said
Nice. Nice. Thanks for doing all the “running” around the web.