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When all you have is a Hammer^H^H^H^H^H RegEx tool, everything seems like a nail^H^H^H^H nightmare

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/11

For a good laugh when you are coding late at the evening: regex – Delphi PCRE – regExp string in INI section “range” – Stack Overflow.

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development | 5 Comments »

Crap: VersionInfo handling broken as of Delphi XE2

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/11

Today I found out the hard way that you really need a build integration system for managing VersionInfo in Delphi applications: as of Delphi XE2 it is broken in the IDE.

See these links:

This is the only workable workaround so far:

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments »

ModelMaker Code Explorer 10.0.0: Delphi XE3 compatible, Locate Type and Empty Parameter Lists with ()

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/10

Last week, ModelMaker Code Explorer 10.0.0 got released:

General new features

  • Delphi XE3 / RAD Studio XE3 support
    (as well as support from Delphi 5 and up)
  • Member Search list allows filtering on member type. Todo items are also displayed.
  • Pascal, new option on tab MMX | Properties | Pascal | New Entities | Methods: Empty Parameter lists. This controls how empty method, procedure and delegate parameter lists are emitted: either suppressed – pascal style, or emitted as ( ) – c-style.
  • Locate Type: displays a filtered list of previously parsed class and interface types. This is used to open the containing source file and locate a class inside the file. Default key binding Alt+Shift+T.

Solved bugs

  • Text containing line breaks and stored in XML (settings, snippets) could contain stray 0x0B (#11) characters. Solved.
  • An access violation at shutdown could occur in older Delphi IDEs if MMX was not docked. Solved.
  • If the Delphi IDE editor buffer contains a stray #0 (which is bad in itself) would cause all kinds of exception in MMX. MMX now detects stray #0’s and abort all editing operations, displaying the line:column of the bad #0 character.
  • Pascal: relative paths starting with \ (relative to root in drive) would not be handled correct. Solved

–jeroen

via: ModelMaker Code Explorer 10.0.0.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

madshi.net: Delphi XE3 releases of madExcept (4.0.5) and madCodeHook (3.1.2)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/06

Great: a few more additions for my Delphi XE3 toolbox:

2012-09-05 

madExcept 4.0.5 release comes with the following changes:

  • added support for XE3
  • a couple of bugfixes and minor improvements

madCodeHook 3.1.2 comes with the following changes:

  • added support for XE3
  • added support for Metro (AppContainer integrity) apps
  • fixed: crash in CreateProcessEx (32bit)
  • fixed: uninjection crash in w2k3 error reporting service

–jeroen

via: madshi.net – home.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »

FastMM4 download available for Delphi XE3

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/05

At the day of the Delphi XE3 release Piere le Riche released the download version of FastMM4 (now version 4.991) that is compatible with Delphi XE3.

change log:

Version 4.991 (3 September 2012)

  • Added the LogMemoryManagerStateToFile call. This call logs a summary of
    the memory manager state to file: The total allocated memory, overhead,
    efficiency, and a breakdown of allocated memory by class and string type.
    This call may be useful to catch objects that do not necessarily leak, but
    do linger longer than they should.
  • OS X support added by Sebastian Zierer
  • Compatible with Delphi XE3

Note:

The download is ready, but the FastMM source repository on SourceForge is not yet updated.

–jeroen

via: FastMM | Free Development software downloads at SourceForge.net.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, FastMM, Software Development | 1 Comment »

Help Test RAD Studio XE3 Support in GExperts 1.37 Beta 1 | GExperts

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/04

Didn’t see this one on DelphiFeeds yet:

Help Test RAD Studio XE3 Support in GExperts 1.37 Beta 1 | GExperts.

Now please Thomas, can you create an experimental build too?

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

Many more event videos available at Channel 9 (was: PDC10 – view Microsoft PDC 2010 sessions on your PC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/28

Dang; I thought this had long left the posting queue, but somehow it ended in the drafts (:

Since then, many more event videos made it to Channel 9, including Build 2011, and TechDays 2012.

Anyway, here it is:

Microsoft’s PDC 2010 was held at the end of October 2010 in Redmond, WA, USA.

For the people that could not attend, it is very nice to view the sessions using the PDC10 player (it seems still people didn’t learn and start stripping the century parts from years again!).

Even if you are not using Visual Studio, .NET Azure or other Microsoft Technologies, there are a lot of interesting sessions showing the directions that Microsoft is taking.
Comparing that to what you do today is always a good thing to do: it helps you reflect, an important part of your personal development.

A few things I found interesting (in no particular order):

  • Asynchrony support in C# 5 and VB.NET 11 based on the Task Parallel Library
  • The choice to favour HTML 5 over SilverLight, even though Internet Explorer 9 and Microsoft’s HTML 5 authoring/development tools are far from ready
  • Azure reporting: is reporting the next big thing on clouds?
  • Offline versus online in the cloud world
  • NuPack – does it bring package management to the same level as Ruby or *nix?
  • XNA for XBox, Windows and Windows Phone

Enjoy!

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Channel9, Cloud Development, Database Development, Delphi, Development, HTML, HTML5, Mobile Development, SilverLight, SocialMedia, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Web Development, Windows Azure, Windows Phone Development, XNA | 2 Comments »

Is Embarcadero going to use a way around WinRT sideloading only being available on Windows 8 Enterprise SKUs?

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27

One of the Enterprise SKU of Windows 8 is that it allows side-loading of WinRT apps. It gives you the opportunity to load internally developed Metro-style applications that use WinRT on Windows 8 without a developers license installed on that Windows 8 machine.

This feature was described on many sources, including:

But since many apps (including Delphi written apps as they cannot link to the Visual C++ Run-Time DLL) don’t directly run on WinRT, there is a clear demand of enabling this side-loading feature for non-Enterprise SKUs of Windows 8:

The last link describes a way to circumvent this, and I think that is what Embarcadero is aiming at to enable Delphi XE3 Metropolis style applications to run on WinRT:

Note I updated my Delphi WinRT link clearance post with the last two links.

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development, WinRT-with-Delphi | 2 Comments »

Link clearance on the recent Delphi XE3 and WinRT stir

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/25

Just for my own record, a link clearance of WinRT in relation to Delphi.

I amended this a couple of time already, will try to do so over time: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development, WinRT-with-Delphi | Tagged: , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Jazzy icons for Metropolis UI Applications that you can create with Delphi XE3

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/24

Now for some lighter Delphi XE3 related stuff:

These icons seem to go very well with the Metropolis UI Applications that you can create (and convert from VCL!) with Delphi XE3 (see the XE3 video at 0:30).

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development, UI Design | 2 Comments »

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