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, […]
Embarcadero 2018/19 Roadmap Update Read More »
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
RAD Server Performance Improvements Read More »
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
Embarcadero Announce Free Community Edition IDE’s Read More »
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
Activating Mobile Support in 10.2.3 Professional Read More »
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
Open files in external apps from Firemonkey Read More »
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
Internet connectivity state management in Firemonkey Read More »
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
Web Development with ExtJS for Delphi Developers Read More »
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
RAD Studio 10.2.2 Hotfix Released Read More »
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
Update Subscriptions and the End of Upgrades Read More »
With the Upgrade Amnesty underway, we’ve received this question a few times in the last week. After copying and pasting my answer a few times, I thought it would be easier if I wrote it up here. So, you’ve upgraded but need to have access to Raize Components to support your existing projects? No problem,
“Upgrading, but I need Raize Components” Read More »