This [WayBack] SvnBridge – Use TortoiseSVN with Team Foundation Server – View Discussion shows you how to setup SvnBridge with TFS 2012 and IIS 7.5.
20170517: a fork is at https://github.com/andim2/SvnBridge
[WayBack] SvnBridge on CodePlex.
–jeroen
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Steps for setting up SvnBridge with TFS2012 (via SvnBridge forum at CodePlex)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/25
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Some great Delphi XE4 iOS push notification demos by Luis Felipe González Torres done in English by Anders Ohlsson
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/20
On the blog from Embarcadero MVP Luis Felipe González Torres are some great Delphi XE4 iOS demos.
However, the blog is Spanish (that’s probably why he is not on DelphiFeeds), so if you do not understand that you had to live with the Google Translate versions of the pages.
Until CodeRage Mobile that is: Anders Ohlsson gave a English presentation:
Creating Apple Push Notification Services (APNS) for your Mobile Applications
iOS supports the Apple Push Notification Services (APNS) This session will show you how to create a push notification services as part of your mobile application. APNS is service for sending information to iOS and OSX devices. This session will show you how to create server and device applications that create notifications containing the device token and JSON payload property list.
Basically he covered these Spanish blog posts where you can download the source code (Google translation in parenthesis):
- Delphi XE4 iOS. Adicionando soporte a Notificaciones Remotas (Video y Código Fuente) |.
(Delphi XE4 iOS. Adding support for Notifications Remote (Video and Source) |) - Delphi XE4 iOS. Flexibilizando el Soporte a Push Notification. Solucíon mas elegante! |.
(Delphi XE4 iOS. Easing the Push Notification Support. More elegant solution! |) - Delphi iOS XE4. Apple Push Notification. Capturando la notificación cuando la aplicación no se está ejecutando. |.
(XE4 iOS Delphi. Apple Push Notification. Capturing the notification when the application is not running. |) - Delphi iOS XE4. Apple Push. Configuración del Ambiente (Muy importante) |.
(XE4 iOS Delphi. Apple Push. Environment Settings (important) |)
Important things:
- Application.Entitlement (cannot have CRLF, should have LF separators).
- Filenames to be deployed on iOS are CASE SENSITIVE!
(Though the similator is not, the actual iOS devices are). - For identification of a device that is iOS 6 or up, do not use the Device ID (as UIDevice.uniqueIdentifier is deprecated and unavailable as of iOS 7), use the VendorID (UIDevice.identifierForVendor).
Olaf Monien has a great blog post about doing this from Delphi XE4: iOS: Identifying Your Users Devices – A Recipe How to Import iOS Classes | Olaf’s Thoughts About Development.
–jeroen
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DIPP allows you to remove conditional directives from Delphi source code (via StackOverflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/20
Cool to know that DIPP is able to strip directives from Delphi source code:
The freeware program DIPP from Delphi Inspiration can remove conditionals.
Even though DIPP does not support post-Delphi-2007 language enhancements, it usually does a very good job.
–jeroen
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CodeRage Mobile day 2 QA
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/19
I had a bit of trouble getting into CodeRage Mobile: somehow the confirmation email never reached the pluimers.com servers. After retrying today, @EmbarcaderoTech sent a GotoMeeting link that worked.
Later I will try to trace back about the mail issue (:
I’m in now, and since I usually loose the QA information, here is a dump of the QA for today so far.
Will try to find time for post editing and getting the URLs clickable.
Welcome to CodeRage Mobile! Read the rest of this entry »
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Vintage Dave is working on a new multithreaded memory manager for Delphi that does not have a global lock
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/19
The comment thread at via [WayBack] The Oracle at Delphi » Give in to the ARC side (now at [WayBack] place 1 and [WayBack] 2) is very interesting.
So soon after writing a StackOverflow [WayBack] answer on Delphi Memory Managers yesterday, [WayBack] this one by [WayBack] David M (aka vintagedave) caught my eye:
This is unannounced at the moment, but I am working on a new memory manager which does not have a global lock, and is designed for multithreaded usage, including cases where memory is allocated in one thread and freed in another, and many threads are allocating and freeing at once. It also uses a more secure design than FastMM4, which may be important for world-facing code, eg web servers. It’s a personal project which I have not yet announced, but if you are interested (Allen, Guenther, others) please feel free to contact me at vintagedave@gmail.com.
I wonder if it is better than the multithreaded Delphi memory managers I mentioned in the answer:
- [WayBack] ScaleMM now at [WayBack] GitHub – andremussche/scalemm: Fast scaling memory manager for Delphi
- [WayBack] SynScaleMM (based on ScaleMM)
- [WayBack] TBBMM
- [WayBack] TopMM
As a side note:
One of the reasons for using FastMM is the excellent debugging capabilities. It looks like – though not free – DDDebug extends this a lot!
I found it in Wanted: live leak detection for FastMM – DelphiFeeds.com and [WayBack] TURBU Tech » Blog Archive » Wanted: live leak detection for FastMM.
–jeroen
via The Oracle at Delphi » Give in to the ARC side.
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Samples Environment for Microsoft Chart Controls – Release: Samples for Chart Control – .NET Framework 4
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/19
I hadn’t done Charting for a while, but these got going very quickly:
There are example downloads for ASP.NET and WinForms requiring .NET 4 or higher.
In addition, these starting points also proved to be really helpful:
Since my objective was adding charts to an existing WinForms business app, this was the namespace at hand: System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting Namespace ().
If you are at .NET 3.5, then start at DataVisualization.Charting.Chart simple example – C# – Snipplr Social Snippet Repository.
–jeroen
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Delphi XE2: Update 4 is not the final update… Be sure to check out HotFix 1
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/18
When at clients, I often see Delphi XE2 only updated until Delphi XE2 Update 4 (sometimes not even Update 3 is installed, which means you can run into Strange Format result in Delphi XE2 when using Currency data types).
Update 4 is the latest update offered by the ‘check for updates’. But the actual latest update is CodeCentral ID: 28881, RAD Studio XE2 Update 4 Hotfix for FireMonkey and C++.
The final ISO does include this update, so if you ever need to re-install, do it from CodeCentral ID: 28882, Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2 ISO (includes Update 4 Hotfix).
You can check which updates you have installed in the Help -> About box of Delphi:
- RAD Studio XE2 Update 4:
version 16.0.4429.46931;
Delphi XE2 and C++ Builder XE2 Update 4 - RAD Studio XE2 Update 4 hotfix 1:
version 16.0.4504.48759;
Delphi XE2 and C++ Builder XE2 Update 4 HotFix1
Delphi XE2 and C++ Builder XE2 Update 4
So be aware: sometimes the HotFix is only recognizable as the version number, not the version text.
Though HotFix is advertised as FireMonkey and C++ update, it also includes some Delphi fixes and makes sure you don’t get the below error messages from IDE Fix Pack 5.1 for 2009-XE3.
As a matter of fact, shortly after releasing, the author Andreas Hausladen posted IDE Fix Pack 5.1 for XE2 requires XE2 Hotfix 1.
Andreas Hausladen releases new versions of the IDE Fix Pack at irregular intervals. Watch the release page. Currently it is at version 5.3: IDE Fix Pack 5.3 and for Delphi XE2 it indicates “IDE Fix Pack 5.3 for XE2+UP4+Hotfix1”.
While installing the Hotfix 1, you can get messages like these:
--------------------------- Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 --------------------------- Error Error applying patch to file C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0\lib\win64\release\IdSSLOpenSSLHeaders.dcu. It has probably been updated by other means, and can no longer be modified by this patch. For more information contact your patch vendor. --------------------------- Abort Retry Ignore ---------------------------
The reason is that the installer thought it had enough disk space, but the dynamic swap file growth of Windows systems decreased the disk space after the initialler estimate.
Make sure you have at lease 4 gigabytes of disk space free before installing RAD Studio XE2 Update 4 Hotfix 1.
These are the error messages you can get: Read the rest of this entry »
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C#/.NET/LINQ: DotNetStat: netstat.exe with TCP ports grouped by host
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/18
A lot of people have written .NET equivalents of netstat code. Basically there are two starting points:
- Use the built-in System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties method, for instance by
– Build your own netstat.exe with c# | Tim Van Wassenhove.
– Netstat in C# « Towards Next. - A P/Invoke wrapper around the Windows IP Helper function GetExtendedTcpTable, which adds process information, for instance by
– windows – Which PID listens on a given port in c# – Stack Overflow.
– Netstat Example – CodeProject.
I adapted the first, made the output very much like the built-in Windows netstat, and added some LINQ code to demonstrate grouping and ordering.
Now you get grouped output like this:
Distinct Remote Address:Port pairs by Remote Address: 107.20.249.140 443 107.20.249.78 443 127.0.0.1 6421, 19872 192.168.1.81 17500, 61678 199.47.218.159 443 199.47.219.148 80 199.47.219.160 443 23.21.220.140 443 23.23.127.94 443
The code below is part of the DotNetStat example.
It demonstrates a few important LINQ aspects beyond the LINQ Query Expressions (C# Programming Guide) intro and 101 LINQ Samples in C#.:
- LINQ translates C# query keywords into framework members, for instance into extension methods in Enumerable Methods (System.Linq).
- LINQ uses delayed execution, so a lot of errors will not only absent during compile time, nor at LINQ query setup, but delayed until the portions of the query are being executed.
- In this case, it means that if you get the orderby wrong, you will get the an error like At least one object must implement IComparable inside the foreach loop.
- There is no distinct keyword, so you have to use one of the overloads of the Enumerable.Distinct Method (System.Linq).
- The group member by sub-member does not require an IComparable
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.NET/C# – CreateTemporaryRandomDirectory (via: Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/13
A while ago I needed unique temporary directories. This appears not to be standard functionality in the .NET System.IO.Path or System.IO.Directory class.
Josh Kelley asked a question about it before, and I adapted the example by Scott-Dorman based on GetTempPath and GetRandomFileName and comments by Chris into a more robust CreateTemporaryRandomDirectory one that works in .NET 2.0 and higher:
using System.IO;
namespace BeSharp.IO
{
public class DirectoryHelper
{
public static string GetTemporaryDirectory()
{
do
{
try
{
string tempPath = Path.GetTempPath();
string randomFileName = Path.GetRandomFileName();
string tempDirectory = Path.Combine(tempPath, randomFileName);
Directory.CreateDirectory(tempDirectory);
return tempDirectory;
}
catch (IOException /* ex */)
{
// continue
}
} while (true);
}
}
}
You can call it like this: Read the rest of this entry »
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Delphi XE4 Update 1 is out (via: Installing the Platform Assistant on a Mac – RAD Studio)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/12
Over the last couple of days, I was asking myself
“wow, the docwiki has been updated for the Delphi XE4 update 1 version of the Mac edition of the Platform Assistant, how long until the official update is out?”
These URLs from Installing the Platform Assistant on a Mac – RAD Studio didn’t work for a couple of days:
- http://altd.embarcadero.com/release/radstudio/11.0/PAServer/RADPAServerXE4_upd1.pkg
- http://installers.codegear.com/release/radstudio/11.0/PAServer/RADPAServerXE4_upd1.pkg
Now they do!
The reason is that yesterday Embarcadero released 29446 Update 1 for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE4 that fixes lots of stuff: Fix list for Update 1 for RAD Studio XE4, Delphi XE4 and C++Builder XE4.
Note it is not referring to Readme – Help Update 1 for Delphi and C++Builder XE4 – RAD Studio which got released last week as 29436 Help Update 1 for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE4. It is the real Delphi XE4 Update 1.
The cool thing: finally it is a binary patch. Not fast about as fast as a full uninstall/reinstall), but at 336 megabytes a much smaller download than the 3.7 gigabytes of 29451 Delphi XE4 and C++Builder XE4 ISO (including Update 1).
Patched update versus full uninstall/install is a trade off:
- Patch can take a couple of hours, and is CPU bound (too bad most of it is bound to a single CPU core)
- Uninstall/reinstall is disk-speed and disk-size bound (make sure you have 15+ gigabytes free; an SSD improves this process a lot)
altd, ftpd, keeping off-line downloads Read the rest of this entry »
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 