Archive for the ‘Delphi’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/17
Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few very nice MSDN magazine articles. Not all of them have ended up in the list at MSDN magazine, so here is a more complete list:
Though the articles show the majority of sample code in C#, the actual topics are of great interest to any developer writing .NET code or interfacing to it.
Some keywords in his articles: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/05
The NEXTGEN family of Delphi compilers for the Mobile platforms changed quite a bit of things.
Most of it has been covered by various blogs posts. A non exhaustive list of ones I liked:
Those articles do not contain two things I had’t found about yet though that are important when you do RTTI using NEXTGEN in Delphi XE4: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, Encoding, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/04
You will see a few Delphi XE5 pre-release related updates here soon. That is part of the Delphi XE5 beta blogging permission I have been given so I can show new Delphi XE5 features. Those updates are from a pre-release version of Delphi XE5 and will be replaced with a final update when Delphi XE5 is being released.
For more information about Delphi XE5 and the Android support, please visit http://embt.co/RADAndroid.
Though not as fast as I hoped (I’ve slept most of the past days), I’m already preparing my Mercurial repositories at https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp, and preparing for the PasCon / RAD Studio In Action in Leiden, The Netherlands next saturday so stay tuned.
About this event: there are a few seats left, and a last-minute discount recently launched. Book your tickets through the on-line links for EUR 35 excluding VAT (normallu EUR 49 excluding VAT): Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development | Tagged: bitbucket, Delphi, repositories | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/01
While working on my Delphi: First try on an XSD for .groupproj files, I bumped into an error `Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in this schema`.
I added a targetNamespace attribute to the GroupProj.xsd so the .grouproj files would use the right namespace.
That resulted into two funny errors:
- Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in this schema.
Visual Studio (which I normally use for editing XSD) would only throw this error on these elements:
<xsd:element ...>
So it would not throw them on nodes using the empty namespace.
That was really confusing!
- When validating .grouproj files using this GroupProj.xsd, I would get this error for all .groupproj files:
System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaValidationException: Type ‘<type>’ is not declared. (in this case for ‘<type>’ ‘ProjectType’).
That was odd too: the ‘ProjectType’ was indeed declared, and should be valid.
I could hardly find any information about the latter error, but the former gave a few useful hits.
Thanks User weston – Stack Overflow. for answering this: it made me smack to my head (like usual, a case of EBCAK). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development, XML/XSD, XSD | Tagged: software, stack overflow, technology | 2 Comments »
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:
First try on an XSD for .groupproj files.
–jeroen
via: jeroenp / BeSharp.net / commit / c122bbdef42e — Bitbucket.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
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
Full day event: RAD Studio In Action LIVE! + conference track Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Android, Android Devices, CodePlex, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, FreePascal, git, iOS Development, Lazarus, Mercurial/Hg, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceForge, Subversion/SVN, TFS (Team Foundation System) | Leave a Comment »
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:
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.
Posted in Database Development, Delphi, Development, Firebird, InterBase, MySQL, OracleDB, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Sybase | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/21
It has been in the queue for a really long time. In fact, all started when chatting with Anders Ohlsson during the inception of the Embarcadero MVP program.
But then the paper work (you know, the thing with written signatures, fax machines, etc) got buried under some projects that lasted both a lot longer than initially anticipated, and were far more consuming also meaning I could not make it to the developer conferences I originally planned.
Recently, I dug out the paper work, then found out that Jim McKeeth – now leading the MVP program at Embarcadero – could lessen the paperwork substantially.
A few manual steps were still involved on both sides, but now I am on the MVP Directory | General.
There is more to it. This fall, I will not only be making it to, but also speaking during at least 3, maybe more Delphi related events in Europe:
Given the time frame, and increase of information about a Delphi for Android product, it might be out or available for beta blogging by then. You can sign up for the beta here, and according to the roadmap it is estimated for release later this year. I hope to be able to play with that soon enough to at least demo a few bits and pieces of it using my Nexus 4 and HTC Sensation on some of those events.
Hope to see some of you there!
–jeroen.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE4, Development, Software Development | 3 Comments »
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