Delphi XE8 things I learned from the second week of G+ reading
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/22
General XE8 news:
- Delphi Library Guidelines | The Art of Delphi Programming.
- DST issue when converting DateTime: Can someone point me to the problem? I have this code: var dt, dt2:….
- Delphi is not a cross-compiler, but a set of cross-compilers – Synopse.
- Delphi IDE Colorizer Now supports RAD Studio XE8 | The Road to Delphi.
- Castalia even breaking on code pasting: How can I disable Castalia in XE8?.
- Confusion about recharge and other subscriptions: Anyone here bought a license recharge for Delphi XE7? If so, any options from….
(on my opinion: when Embarcadero heavily discounts the current Delphi version, then you need to start thinking about your ordering/subscription; they do about 2 rounds per year on this). - There covariance and contravariance in Delphi? On the brittle built-in Generic Collections (Spring4D is much better) and the variance/covariance issues.
- The History of Castalia. Or how it filled the gap that CodeRush for Delphi left behind. (And is about as stable).
- JSON and REST issues: Delphi XE8 has a bug in tjson.ObjectToJsonObject ! same source in XE7 marshall….
- Delphi code of the day: function UTF8ToString(const S: array of Byte): string;….
Components/tools/libraries updated to XE8:
- Modelmaker Code Explorer 11.2.0 has XE8 support.
- Modelmaker 11.8.0 has XE8 support.
- Delphi Dev. Shell Tools Supports RAD Studio XE8.
- All the Mitov Software’s Delphi and C++ Builder libraries….
- The Mitov.Runtime library has been updated to support Delphi XE8….
- Delphi in disguise: Appmethod 1.16 Spring Release – Now Available! – Appmethod Blog.
- Livebindings alternative: The OpenWire has been updated to version 7.6 on Sourceforge.
- TMS Cloud Pack v2.9 ( http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/cloudpack.asp ) released….
- A new version of #UniDAC is available..
- The RAD Studio IDE plugin DDevExtensions 2.83 for XE8 is now available.
- MadExcept 4 for XE8 has been officially release and can be found at http://madshi.net/.
–jeroen
via:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
xepol said
The castalia problem with pasting is almost certainly from pasting a pipe symbol. It has been reported as “kills the IDE dead” directly to Marco.