Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/28
Weaving extends your program adding new functionality.
It can be at different levels for difference purposes (AOP, Debugging, Automated Testing, etc).
This .net – What is IL Weaving? question on StackOverflow contains a few pointers to interesting reading material.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/21
I’ve been working on a project that uses both COBOL and Delphi.
For documentation purposes, Syntax Highlighted code makes your code so much easier to read.
Delphi has GExperts for source code export (in either HTML or RTF), but it took me a while to find a good syntax highlighter for COBOL.
I finally found a COBOL syntax highighter at tohtml.com: it exports to HTML.
I’m glad I found that site, as they have a ton of syntax highlighters, divided into groups.
Quite amusing to see COBOL classified as ‘rare’ (given that it has one of the largest code bases in the world).
This is what they support:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/09
If you love the Delphi books by Marco Cantu as much as I do, then you certainly will love that Marco has created a public SVN repository at code.marcocantu.com containing all the samples of his Delphi 6, 7, 2007, 2009, 2010 and XE books.
Way to go Marco!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/08
Earlier this week, the new GExperts 1.35 Release got published: a free set of expert extensions supporting Delphi 6 through XE.
It is an incremental release has a few new features of which I like the new subgroup support in the Grep Search extensions most.
Now hopefully, Thomas Müller will release an experimental GExperts build of version 1.35 soon: his experimental builds integrate a source code formatter that works across many Delphi versions and often formats better than the one included in Delphi 2010 and up.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/07
I just came across the great new Delphi sorcery blog by Stefan Glienke from Soest, NRW, Germany.
He uses some cool new features recently introduced into Delphi for new ways of DataBinding, Yield-Return, Delphi Lambda Expressions, Delphi Dependency Injection with MEF and more.
Sample code is at his Delphi Sorcery Google Project.
I hoped that somebody would do all that, as this shows the real power of what Delphi can do.
Now it’s there for
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/31
An interesting question on Stackoverflow.com: .net – Different WSDL ASMX,WCF web-services – Stack Overflow.
The answer is simple when you know it: flatten the WSDL that comes from WCF.
Note that Delphi Win32 is not the only client having these issues, as Elton Stoneman shows on his blog and the WCFExtras toolkit for WCF that allows for single WSDL export.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/10
The FM USB Library is on my research list.
–jeroen
PS: a few raw links that might fit in:
http://www.silabs.com/usbradio / http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBFMRadioRD.aspx
http://code.google.com/p/silabsradiodll/
http://parts.digikey.nl/1/1/543483-usb-fm-radio-stick-usbfmradio-rd.html
http://nl.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=1186925
http://www.mp3car.com/hardware-development/64550-usb-fm-rds-solution-with-sofware-40.html
http://www.mp3car.com/hardware-development/64550-usb-fm-rds-solution-with-sofware-41.html
http://usb.brando.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00136
http://usb.brando.com/usb-radio-ii_p1785c35d15.html
http://www.whitebream.com/p811.shtml?id=p811
http://khason.net/blog/read-and-use-fm-radio-or-any-other-usb-hid-device-from-c/
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-digital-radio-receiver-dongle-fm-76-108mhz-1929
http://www.silabs.com/products/audiovideo/fmreceivers/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=usb+fm+rds+site%3Amouser.com
http://www.mp3car.com/hardware-development/69493-hqct-module-new-thread-following-hu-rds-rdbs.html
http://www.mp3car.com/hardware-development/64550-usb-fm-rds-solution-with-sofware-2.html
http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/1139
http://www.digital-car.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?12194-New-CarTFT-FM-(Automotive-USB-FM-RDS-tuner)
http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/1017
http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/supportedcards.html
http://www.alibri.it/RRMobile/Silab%20USB%20Radio.htm
http://www.mo-co-so.com/Car-TFT-FM-Tuner-with-RDS-p/mcs-tft-rad.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311272
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/26
Since I use (among others) both Visual Studio and Delphi, I changed the Tortoise Global Ignore Pattern to be this:
Debug lib *.identcache *.local *bin *obj RECYCLER Bin *.user *.suo *.dcu __history ModelSupport_* *.rsm thumbs.db *.bak *.~* __recovery *.tvsconfig *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store
The bold portion is what I changed when compared to the original one:
*.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store
Input from [WayBack] Tortoise SVN Global Ignore Pattern for Visual Studio (which also included some of the Delphi patterns), [WayBack] this Stackoverflow question (that indicated the patterns are case sensitive) and [WayBack] Shawn Oster | TortoiseSVN global ignore pattern for Visual Studio and Delphi.
–jeroen
PS: Added __recovery as Delphi 10.* started to use that for recovery files, which – unlike __history is not documented, see [WayBack] What is the __recovery folder ? In C++ Seattle 10 Professional running under Win 7 I now get a folder called __recovery.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/21
Quite a few things are similar when doing Generics in both Delphi and C#.
But constraints are a bit different.
To quote the Delphi Wiki page on Constraints in Generics – RAD Studio XE:
Constraints can be associated with a type parameter of a generic. Constraints declare items that must be supported by any particular type passed to that parameter in a construction of the generic type
Constraint items include:
- Zero, one, or multiple interface types
- Zero or one class type
- The reserved word “constructor“, “class“, or “record“
You can specify both “constructor” and “class” for a constraint. However, “record” cannot be combined with other reserved words.
Multiple constraints act as an additive union (“AND” logic).
A few other differences are these:
Note that – like the Delphi documentation – the C# constraints on type parameters documentation is not complete on those either.
Related: a great post [WayBack] Using Generics in Delphi – Phil Gilmore covering the comparison between C# and Delphi in more depth.
–jeroen
via: Constraints in Generics – RAD Studio XE.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/13
When using Entity Framework 4, your transofmrations (model to classes, DB to model, etc) are performed by T4 Text Templates.
Those templates are executed all over the place (when saving your project, building your project, changing your model, etc).
Since anyone can insert a T4 Text Template into Visual Studio, and those are scripts, it is a potential vulnerability.
The default Visual Studio behaviour is to show you a dialog like this:
[Security Warning] Running this text template can potentially harm your computer. Do not run it if you obtain if rtom an untrusted source. Click OK. to run the template. Click Cancel top stop the process. [X] Do not show this message again [OK] [Cancel]
Some blogs mention Just click OK and feel free to check “do not show this message again.”
I’m not sure I want that: it would indicate I always trust T4 Text Templates, even the ones added in the future (T4 Text Templates are executable content, malicious software could find it’s way into your development environment; anyone remember the virus that hooked itself into the run-time library sources of a development system so it would spread through anything compiled on that system?).
But I also don’t want to click OK on that dialog.
It would be so nice if the dialog:
Anyone better thoughts on this?
–jeroen
via Customizing EDM Code Gen in EF4 : Don’t Be Iffy.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 