Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/31
Delphi introduced the .groupproj files to support MSBUILD.
I couldn’t find an XSD for it, but need to do some fiddling with those files, so I created one. It’s not very detailed, I think it gets most of the definition right.
The checkin is on my BeSharp.net mercurial repository on BitBucket:
–jeroen
via: jeroenp / BeSharp.net / commit / c122bbdef42e — Bitbucket.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/29
Cape Cod Gunny found the PDF of the Delphi 7 Developer’s Guide (1100+ pages of good reading): Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: The One Manual Every Delphi Programmer Should Have!.
There are in fact quite a few more PDF manuals of older Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero products:
site:http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio filetype:pdf
These I like most: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/29
Too bad the Sourceforge does not do stats pages any more, so you it is a lot harder to correlate project activity with potential release dates any more.
But: about 3 weeks ago, the XE5 branch was added to the RadStudioDemos repository:
http://sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/788/tree/branches/RadStudio_XE5/
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/29
When you have a layered exception handling (for instance to translate general exceptions into domain or business exceptions, and want to control which exceptions trickle up to where), then from a debugger perspective, most exceptions actually handled.
However debugging those layers, it often makes sens to be able to break where all these exceptions are actually fired.
The screenshots (click on each to enlarge) are for Visual Studio 2010, but it works in any Visual Studio version and (since it is a debugger feature, not a language one) for all .NET languages I tried so far.
Note that as of Visual Studio 2010, if you disable these, it still breaks when exceptions are thrown from code called through reflection. This seems intentional and has 3 workarounds, but it might have been reverted in Visual Studio 2012.
This is a setting stored on the Solution level (.suo file) in Visual studio which by default is turned off. Luckily, it is very easy to turn this feature on, for instance for CLR (.NET Common Language Runtime) exceptions:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/28
Some 20 years after someone thought it was a nice idea to allow spaces in path names on Windows, it still is a bad idea to rely that just “works” for everything.
Today I tried to see if it still applied what I mentioned 2 years ago during the German BASTA! Fall conference in the Rheingoldhalle when talking about cross platform .NET development using MonoDroid/MonoTouch/Visual Studio:
Android SDK
– http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
– Windows:
- http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r13-windows.exe
- http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r13-windows.zip
Do not install in a directory with spaces (not C:\Program Files, but C:\android-sdk)
And it does still apply: though not mentioned in the Android SDK/ADT documentation, most of the batch files in the Android SDK ADT bundle are not compatible being stored in a path that has spaces.
Unquoted referrals to paths like this are used in most SDK batch files:
cd /d %~dp0
The only way to run these batch files is with the current directory being the directory of the batch file itself, or referring to them in their fully quoted form.
Another correct way would be to use short names, but that’s only done in find_java.bat:
%~dps0
Summary of the batch files and how they are affected:
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\build-tools\android-4.2.2\dx.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\android.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\ddms.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\draw9patch.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\hierarchyviewer.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\jobb.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\lint.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\monitor.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\monkeyrunner.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\traceview.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\uiautomatorviewer.bat | |
| – …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\lib\find_java.bat | |
| + …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\lib\post_tools_install.bat | |
| * …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\proguard\bin\proguard.bat | |
| * …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\proguard\bin\proguardgui.bat | |
| * …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\proguard\bin\retrace.bat | |
| – …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\templates\gradle\wrapper\gradlew.bat | |
| – compatible with spaces in path | |
| + incompatible with spaces in path | |
| * won't run at all when current directory is different from directory of batch file |
(Side note: most incompatible batch files correctly do `for %%i in (“%cd%”) do set prog_dir=%%~fsi`)
So: make sure “…” is a path not containing spaces.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/28
Every once in a while you are in situation where you are not allowed to use SQL Server Profiler, nor to see any query plans, but you still want see the SQL going from your .NET apps to the database server.
With that SQL, you can feed it through your favourite database tool, and see where the culprit is.
There are various ways of getting rudimentary or a bit more advanced SQL out of this. Flapper posted a solution that is specific for SQL Server (and requries both ObjectExtensions.cs and StringExtensions.cs from the DotNetX library), but posted more ready to use SQL.
I opted – and wanted to hank Justin Harris – for this piece of code on StackOverflow, which works on any IDbCommand (so you can use it for any ADO.NET data provider, like SQL Server, OLE DB, Oracle, etc):
While you will not be able to plug is into something like Enterprise Manager to run it works for logging.
public static string ToReadableString(this IDbCommand command) { StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); if (command.CommandType == CommandType.StoredProcedure) builder.AppendLine("Stored procedure: " + command.CommandText); else builder.AppendLine("Sql command: " + command.CommandText); if (command.Parameters.Count > 0) builder.AppendLine("With the following parameters."); foreach (IDataParameter param in command.Parameters) { builder.AppendFormat( " Paramater {0}: {1}", param.ParameterName, (param.Value == null ? "NULL" : param.Value.ToString())).AppendLine(); } return builder.ToString(); }answered Apr 12 ’10 at 20:26; juharr
You saved my day! Not being allowed to use the profiler, this is a great way to get the actual SQL, then run it from SSMS or the Enterprise Manager. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers
I pasted it in a DataExtensions class like this: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/27
The Dutch stop of the RAD Studio In Action LIVE! tour is on September 7th.
The venue location is via Holiday Inn Leiden Hotels: Haagse Schouwweg 10, 2332 KG Leiden, The Netherlands.
It is close to the advertised “Amsterdam Netherlands” (about half an hour drive), close to the A44 highway and close enough to public transport. And it is indeed on Saturday September 7, 2013
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/27
From The Old New Thing:
Recall that the library search path searches directories in the following order:
- The directory containing the application EXE.
- The system32 directory.
- The system directory.
- The Windows directory.
- The current directory.
- The PATH.
Note that the PATH environment variable has a limited length, which can be impacted by the installation programs you use and the Windows versions you use.
To be on the safe side, use 1024 or 1920.
I found various limitations: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/22
I like this Delphi program very much: it is one of the database tools with the widest support of back-ends, and friendliest user interface I know.
Oh, and it is by a great Dutch company too: UpScene (:
So this is their release information:
2013-08-19:
Database Workbench 4.4.1 released
This new release of Database Workbench brings new features and fixes for issues reported by our users.
The free Lite Editions will be released later.
Multi-DBMS developer tool
Database Workbench works natively with:
- Oracle Database
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Sybase SQL Anywhere
- MySQL
- Firebird
- InterBase
- NexusDB
More information about Database Workbench is available at the Database Workbench page, download your copy today via our downloads page, pricing information is available.
This release includes fixes for the InterBase, Firebird, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server modules, as well as general fixes and small new features.
The full details and list of changes in 4.4.1 is available here.
–jeroen
via: News @ Upscene Productions.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/22
Bumped into this error a while ago in Visual Studio 2010:
| Kind | Error |
| Number | 80 |
| Description | Unable to open module file ‘C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.vb’: The system cannot find the file specified. |
| File | C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.vb |
| Line | 1 |
| Column | 1 |
| Project | VbPowerPack |
(I replaced the column separators by line separators to make it more readable)
The code was using the VBPowerPack download I wrote about before, but that appeared to be irrelevant.
This is how I solved it:
I’m not the only one that has this problem every now and then.
Thanks to these posts that helped me out with the above solution:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 