Operation Error when Installing RAD Studio
We’ve had a couple of customers reporting issues installing RAD Studio, with a not terribly useful “Operation Error” message.
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Embarcadero 2018/19 Roadmap Update
Product management at Embarcadero have published more details of the 2018/19 Roadmap. Covering topics such as RAD Studio 10.3, codenamed Carnival (hmmm, no prizes for guessing the city name for that release. I guess Wagga Wagga will have to wait for 10.4 maybe?), FireMonkey Native Controls, Platform support, VCL and Windows Changes, RAD Server changes,
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RAD Server Performance Improvements
Marco recently posted details of a patch to RAD Server 10.2.3 that in his tests has boosted performance significantly. The optimisations cover a few areas, including: memory manager config more appropriate for heavy multithreading processing improvements streamlined license checking
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Embarcadero Announce Free Community Edition IDE’s
Embarcadero have announced free Community Edition IDE’s for Delphi and C++Builder 10.2.3 Tokyo. The Community Editions have local database support, cross platform support (including Windows, Mac, Android and iOS support) as well as all the visual design, debugging and code editing support you’d expect. These are aimed at students, open source contributors, hobbyists, as the
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Activating Mobile Support in 10.2.3 Professional
As you might be aware, with Delphi and C++Builder 10.2.3 Embarcadero added mobile support into the Professional edition. Previously it was available as a paid add-on. In future releases I expect it’ll just be included as part of the normal Pro installation, but until then 10.2.3 Pro users need to take some extra steps to
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Open files in external apps from Firemonkey
It’s rather a common scenario when a Firemonkey mobile app needs to open a file. It might be a PDF document, an image or video. And while opening a file directly inside of Firemonkey app is totally a legit strategy, sometimes it may be not so easy to implement. TImage provides great support for various
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Internet connectivity state management in Firemonkey
It’s a common task for a Firemonkey developer to check Internet connectivity. It might be useful to notify a user that he is going to download a huge amount of data using his mobile connection, or just indicate Online/Offline mode on the UI. This functionality is missing from RAD Studio classes, so lots of developers
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Web Development with ExtJS for Delphi Developers
We’re teaming up with Embarcadero to hold an event around ExtJS, the very cool web dev framework that came through the Sencha acquisition. The aim of the event is to show RAD Studio developers how they can leverage ExtJS to extend their Delphi and C++Builder code onto the web. To get you over that initial
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RAD Studio 10.2.2 Hotfix Released
Last week, Embarcadero released a patch for Tokyo 10.2.2, focused on Android and RTL improvements. However some users experienced some installation issues with that hotfix, so it was taken down. The hotfix has now been re-released, so we would encourage all our RAD Studio customers to review the issues addressed to see if they affect
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Update Subscriptions and the End of Upgrades
Note, due to some customers needing longer to get orders processed in their companies, the Upgrade Amnesty has been extended until April 30th. We’ve had a lot of questions from customers since Malcolm posted his article about Embarcadero’s planned changes to their Upgrade versions. So many in fact, that we asked him to
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