Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/25
Be sure to watch the radstudiodemos project at sourceforge.
It contains the RAD Studio Demos from Embarcadero in this SVN repository.
Which means that the demos of the current RAD Studio version are there, and Embarcadero is filling it with the Demos from the upcoming Delphi XE version.
In fact, quite a few Delphi XE demos have been checked in already.
John Kaster will put on the C# version of DbxUtils on-line there soon.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/20
When you write .NET 4 software, you want to deploy it to your clients, so they need to install the .NET Framework 4.
On fully patched Windows Server 2003 x86 installations, the (optional) Windows Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for Windows Server 2003 x86 (KB982671) usually results in this error:
Installation Failure
Error Code: 0x80246002
Try to install the update again, or request help from one of the following resources.
It fails during download, so it does not even reach the install phase.
Don’t loose too much time resolving this: The usual solution for 0x80246002 as described in KB958056 does not work.
The systems affected don’t have anti-virus or similar software installed, so disabling those won’t work: there is nothing to disable.
What does work is the suggestion a bit lower in the 0x80246002 update fails search results Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/18
Next week, I’ll be speaking at Delphi Live 2010 in San Jose, California.
, USA.
At the end of september, I’ll be speaking at EKON 14, in Darmstadt, Germany. My 14th appearance at EKON!
Delphi Live (sessions in English):
EKON 14 (Sessions auf Deutsch / in German):
Hope tho see some of you people at one of those events.
I will bring some USB audio equipment, so I might do a bit of geek stuff doing ASIO audio on those events too.
–jeroen
Posted in Conferences, Delphi, DelphiLive, Development, EKON, Event, Software Development | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/17
On the Embarcadero forum, Jolyon Smith asked about the underlying meaning of the 64-bit Pulsar statements in the updated Roadmap.
He did not ask for an exact date, but what level of 64-support is the current goal.
Allen Bauer (Chief Scientist at Embarcadero) was kind enough to put up a few answers.
A few quotes are below, please read the full thread titled Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Roadmap: Clarification Required Please … for the exact answers.
It basically boils down to this: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/10
It is good to see the cross breeding effect works:
Last week, the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools added Quick Access Extension, which is the Visual Studio equivalent of the Delphi RAD Studio IDE Insight.
It is a keyboard shortcut (Delphi: F6 or Ctrl-.; Visual Studio: Ctrl+3) to search and execute things defined by the environment:
Delphi has a few options that Visual Studio hasn’t and vice versa, but it comes really close.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/29
One of the toughest parts on creating a new [Archive.is] CodePlex project is choosing a license.
As Jeff Attwood wrote a couple of years ago, choosing a license – any license – is important, because if you don’t, you declare an implicit copyright without explaining how others could use your code.
In addition to that, Jeff published a list of licenses with a one-line phrase describing them, so it becomes easier to start making a choice.
Last year, ShreevastaR extended that list in his answer to this StackOverflow.com question on CodePlex licensing.
Brian Campbell did the same a few months later on another StackOverflow question about CodePlex licensing.
There are many more StackOverflow.com threads like those 2, and they give similar results.
The reason I want to put up a CodePlex project, is to put my sample code for conferences, blog articles and course examples on-line so they are easier to share with other people.
Most is from Visual Studio or Delphi projects using languages C#, VB.NET and Delphi.
Some of it are batch-files, XSD, XSLT, or other small snippets to get stuff working. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in .NET, Access, CodePlex, Database Development, Delphi, Development, Firebird, InterBase, Software Development, SQL Server | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/22
Now where did I hear that “Aurora” product codename name again?
Aurora seems to be the new product codename for Microsof’ts’ on-premises/cloud mix of Small Business Server.
But wait, wasn’t it eras ago that you could choose to run PHP on clouds for your business apps?
And isn’t Aurora/Delphi for PHP all about creating those apps?
–jeroen
via: Microsoft small-business server futures: 5 things to know | ZDNet / Aurora – a Microsoft cloud server for the small guy?.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi for PHP, Development, Opinions, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/21
Long time Delphi user Malcom Groves just posted an interesting video on Debugging Initialization and Finalization sections.
What I especially like is that he performs this trick using the DUnit unit testing framework for Delphi.
+1 for using unit testing!
The trick he uses is an old one, but I didn’t realize that few people know it, so it is good to put it in writing.
Note that the trick does not work in all cases (see further on an alternative), but for most cases it does work well:
Easy, when you know, difficult to find out yourself (I found out by accident eras ago <g>).
Sometimes (I have not found out why yet) some Delphi versions refuse to work this way.
So you need an alternative, which is this one: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/20
I’ve let this boil for a while before reacting on the let go by Embarcadero of Nick Hodges from his R&D Manager position.
Reacting as a non-native English person is a tad difficult, as it is tough to express the fine aspects of the implications well.
So I’m posting this in both the Delphi and Opinions category; reactions are more than welcome. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/08
Five words:
use parameters instead of literals.
via: Date Time SQL Queries: Formatting Date Time Values for Access SQL in Delphi.
Edit: Fixed “in stead of” into “instead of”: learned something new today :-)
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 