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There can be only MS Office sample automation server wrapper components in RAD Studio

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27

There are six variations; only one can be active at a time:

  • Delphi Office 2000 Servers Package
  • Delphi Office XP Servers Package
  • Delphi Office 2010 Servers Package
  • C++Builder Office 2000 Servers Package
  • C++Builder Office XP Servers Package
  • C++Builder Office 2010 Servers Package

via: I cannot get MS Office sample automation server wrapper components. Neither of… [WayBack]

More in depth article explaining all the nitty gritty details: There Can Only Be One! Handling Different Versions of Design Packages inside the IDE | The Art of Delphi Programming [WayBack]

–jeroen

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Google Search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/02

These search the Delphi 2007 docs:

Similar for Delphi 2009 docs

The second ones search just English, and the first searches all languages.

Given the Google search indexing, the first might give a lot of Japanese search results:

https://www.google.com/#q=site:docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/radstudio2007/RS2007_helpupdates/HUpdate4+TPanel

I made shortcuts for the English one in Chrome:

Search engine definition
Search engine Delphi 2007 docs
Keyword d2007
URL with %s in place of query https://www.google.com/#q=site:docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/radstudio2007/RS2007_helpupdates/HUpdate4/EN+%s

 

Search engine definition
Search engine Delphi 20079 docs
Keyword d2009
URL with %s in place of query https://www.google.com/#q=site:docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN+%s

 

I did the same for the docwiki (where you cannot distinguish between languages in a generic way for all Delphi versions, as the language comes after the Delphi version and the kind of documentation (CodeExamples, Libraries, etc.)):

Search engine definition
Search engine Docwiki (all EN/DE/FR/JP)
Keyword docwiki
URL with %s in place of query https://www.google.com/#q=site:docwiki.embarcadero.com+%s

Reasoning:

  • It’s the earliest Delphi version having documentation on-line in HTML format.
  • The foundations of the RTL/VCL structure has not changed since then
  • The links can be archived in the WayBack machine and still look nice after archiving (no CSS fuzz that makes archived pages hard to read)

–jeroen

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Delphi 2007 – when you lost your Borland.*.Targets file during a Windows upgrade

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/09

When upgrading Windows, it will create a fully new %windir% for you.

Any files an application installed files in them will be gone, and appear in a %HomeDrive%\Windows.old

If you’ve deleted that directory because you thought all your applications worked, or the Windows 10 upgrade automagically deleted the Windows.old directory by itself after some grace period, then you might be in trouble.

One of those applications is Delphi 2007. I wrote about a different issue on x64 Windows on that product before: Delphi on Windows x64: solution when project compiles fine under IDE, but not using MSBuild.

Basically it puts these files in %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727:

  • Borland.Common.Targets
  • Borland.Cpp.Targets
  • Borland.Delphi.Targets
  • Borland.Group.Targets

Those will be gone if you deleted the Windows.old directory.

If you are lucky, the files are also in this directory to copy back to %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 and %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727:

C:\ProgramData\{B59CE2E6-B15A-4F23-BD0E-72BF2ADDC3C7}\core\7EFD2DA3\6C948720

And if you’re not, you can find them here too: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ab801cd925e5e634518fd5592eb2a46e

–jeroen

via:

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“Don’t access VCL from a background thread” – how to demo that?

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/11

When accessing the VCL from multiple threads at the same time: adopted from ...\DEMOS\THREADS\THRDDEMO.DPR

When accessing the VCL from multiple threads at the same time: adopted from …\DEMOS\THREADS\THRDDEMO.DPR

Great question a while ago:

[WayBack] “Don’t access VCL from a background thread” – how to demo that? – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+

For me, the ultimate way why not to access the VCL from a background thread is the precursor of the official threads demo that ships from Delphi 2 to Delphi XE6 in ...DEMOS\THREADS\THRDDEMO.DPR. where you’d think the thread isolation would be in ...DEMOS\THREADS\ThSort.pas but actually is in ...DEMOS\THREADS\SortThds.pas.

The first public showing of that demo did not include main thread protection. It originates from a session at the the 1995 Borland Developers Conference where Ray Konopka showed the below code from Bob Ainsbury.

That session reminded why this joke [WayBack] Via the EKON20 sessions… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+ was so funny:  “When Ray Konopka enters the room you have a Raize condition.“.

The question above also made me find back this reference to BorCon95 in San Diego:

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VM disk sizes

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/29

I forgot to schedule the post below. It is still relevant if you create a machine with lots of Delphi versions on it.

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