Bob Swart (aka Dr.Bob at www.drbob42.com) is an IT consultant, developer, reseller, author, trainer and webmaster for his company Bob Swart Training &Consultancy (eBob42) based in Helmond, The Netherlands.
Embarcadero has just released Update #1 for the Delphi 2010 and C++Builder 2010 personalities of RAD Studio 2010.
Sep. 25, 2009 01:27 AM EDT Reads: 150
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From Monday, Nov 16nd until Wednesday Nov 184th, 2009, I'll also be in Stockholm, Sweden, for a 2.5-day RAD Studio 2010 Essentials seminar (spoken in English) covering Delphi topics like the IDE and Language enhancements (Generics, Anonymous Methods, Touch/Gesture), UNICODE, VCL Databa... Sep. 22, 2009 06:43 AM EDT Reads: 139 |
From Monday, Nov 2nd until Wednesday Nov 4th, 2009, I'll be in Helsinki, Finland, for a 2.5-day RAD Studio 2010 Essentials seminar (spoken in English) covering Delphi topics like the IDE and Language enhancements (Generics, Anonymous Methods, Touch/Gesture), UNICODE, VCL Database Devel... Sep. 22, 2009 06:40 AM EDT |
The SDN Conference 2009 will be held on October 19-20, 2009 in Papendal Arnhem, The Netherlands and contains 15 interesting Delphi sessions. Sep. 15, 2009 10:47 AM EDT |
You can now download the slides for my Smart Clients with Delphi and RemObjects SDK session from CodeRage 4, scheduled today from 8:00-8:45 (PDF), which is 17:00-17:45 (GMT+1, my time-zone). Sep. 9, 2009 03:25 AM EDT Reads: 101 |
The week from 7-11 September 2009 is full with Delphi related technical events, including CodeRage 4 and my own free Delphi 2010 seminar in Helmond Brandevoort (The Netherlands) on September 11th.
We start off tomorrow with CodeRage 4 - the 4-day FREE virtual conference with more than... Sep. 7, 2009 02:52 AM EDT |
On Tuesday, August 25 2009, Embarcadero launched the 2010-editions of Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism and RAD Studio. Aug. 25, 2009 07:28 AM EDT |
 Robert Meek has written a book review about my Delphi 2009 Development Essentials, which is sold as paperback from Lulu.com, or offered as free bonus for anyone who purchases Delphi or one or more courseware manuals in PDF format from me.Aug. 18, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,344 |
The Help Update 3 for C++Builder 2009, Delphi 2009 and (the C++Builder and Delphi for Win32 parts of) RAD Studio 2009 is now available for download. Jul. 14, 2009 08:35 AM EDT Reads: 207 |
Michael Li (with three sessions) and Bob Swart (with 1 session) will be the speakers for the Delphi track at the Software Development Event on June 26th 2009 in Houten, The Netherlands. Jun. 8, 2009 03:51 AM EDT Reads: 114 |
Special Offer for June 2009: order Delphi 2009 Upgrade (Professional, Enterprise or Architect) and get a corresponding edition of RAD Studio 2009 instead! This means C++Builder 2009 and Delphi Prism 2009 for free. Jun. 2, 2009 10:40 AM EDT Reads: 173 |
Recently, both Delphi 2009 for Win32 and Delphi Prism 2009 for .NET have received updates: the Delphi Prism May 2009 release for .NET developers, and Update 3 (IDE/VCL/General), Update 4 (database) for Delphi 2009 developers, plus Update 3, Update 4 and a Boost update for C++Builder 20... May. 29, 2009 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 173 |
The Software Development Network (SDN), has opened the call for speakers (deadline for proposals: June 14, 2009) for it’s 18th annual SDN Conference (SDC) to be held at the “Papendal” Convention Center in Arnhem in The Netherlands on October 19 & 20, 2009. May. 21, 2009 11:42 AM EDT |
A special 100-page free issue of Blaise Pascal Magazine has been published and includes a free one-year subscription for registered users of Delphi 2009, C++Builder 2009, Delphi Prism 2009, CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 and/or Embarcadero All-Access. May. 20, 2009 05:14 PM EDT |
It took a while, but I'm finally twittering too as ebob42. May. 14, 2009 02:01 AM EDT |
As most of you may have read by now: Borland will be bought by MicroFocus for 50 million pounds, which may also mean the end of (the use of) the name Borland; truly the end of an era. May. 8, 2009 02:21 AM EDT |
Check out this recent announcement of something that will be very interesting for Delphi developers: Project CrossTalk - a project for Delphi that allows native Delphi code to consume .NET code in a very transparent way, very much like referencing a package. May. 4, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 103 |
 When migrating existing source code from previous versions of Delphi to Delphi 2009, you may encounter warnings about implicit conversions from AnsiString to Unicode Strings or vice versa (the other way may also have a potential data loss) and while it's easy to ignore these warnings, ...Apr. 16, 2009 09:25 AM EDT Reads: 1,598 |
When migrating existing source code from previous versions of Delphi to Delphi 2009, you may encounter warnings about implicit conversions from AnsiString to Unicode Strings or vice versa (the other way may also have a potential data loss) and while it's easy to ignore these warnings, ... Apr. 16, 2009 06:30 AM EDT |
I've created a public LinkedIn group for IntraWeb Developers using Delphi or C++Builder. Apr. 9, 2009 04:28 PM EDT Reads: 112 |
The English Help Update 2 for C++Builder 2009, Delphi 2009 and (the C++Builder and Delphi for Win32 parts of) RAD Studio 2009 is now available for download. Apr. 2, 2009 10:46 AM EDT Reads: 154 |
During the recent migration of a large Delphi for Win32 project (which was started in Delphi 3, and migrated to 5, 7, and 2007 along the way) to Delphi 2009, I encountered some differences in behaviour which were - after some debugging time - ultimately tracked back to the System.Val ... Mar. 20, 2009 06:37 PM EDT Reads: 126 |
Daniel Wischnewski will be the guest speaker for the Delphi track at the SDE meeting of March 30th 2009 in The Netherlands. Mar. 17, 2009 04:49 AM EDT |
Blaise Pascal Magazine issue #5 is now released and available for download from http://www.blaisepascal.eu/. Mar. 14, 2009 06:32 AM EDT |
The Remote Desktop Connection Client 6.1 has been modified, enhanced, and causing me some grief (which I've been able to solve). Mar. 7, 2009 10:56 AM EST Reads: 106 |
This weekend, I've published two new articles on building, deploying and consuming SOAP Web Services with Delphi Prism (using ASP.NET), showing also how to make asynchronous calls from Delphi Prism clients. Feb. 23, 2009 06:35 AM EST Reads: 128 |
Users of Delphi and C++Builder 2009 can finally request their key to install IntraWeb 10.x updates. Jan. 16, 2009 02:05 AM EST Reads: 251 |
Nick Hodges has just published an article with an overview on the status and future of the Delphi compiler. Jan. 7, 2009 07:01 PM EST |
For those of you who do not own RAD Studio 2009 (with or without subscription): you can now purchase just the Delphi Prism 2009 SKU - the plug-in for Visual Studio (Shell) to do .NET development.
As a reseller for CodeGear in the BeNeLux, I offer Delphi Prism 2009 Professional for 499 ... Dec. 20, 2008 01:58 PM EST |
Help Update 1 for RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder 2009 is now available for download from the Registered User Downloads, with more details in the Release Notes. Dec. 20, 2008 02:46 AM EST |
A final Unicode tip concerns the compatibility of UnicodeStrings between Delphi and C++Builder.
The UnicodeString in Delphi can containUnicode or ANSI data at any given time, and in order to ensure that C++Builder code can correctly index the items, a hidden call to UniqueStringX is be... Dec. 18, 2008 11:21 AM EST |
There's an overloaded version of function UpperCase in the SysUtils unit as well as the AnsiStrings unit. Dec. 16, 2008 11:55 AM EST |
From Monday, Feb 23rd until Wednesday Feb 25th, 2008, I'll be in Stockholm, Sweden, for another 3-day RAD Studio 2009 Essentials seminar (spoken in English) covering Delphi topics like the IDE and Language enhancements (Generics, Anonymous Methods), UNICODE, VCL Database Development (D... Dec. 15, 2008 03:46 AM EST |
First the bad news: console I/O does not support reading (UTF-16) Unicode strings, and writing only suports AnsiStrings. Dec. 11, 2008 06:29 AM EST |
Apart from the source code for my CodeRage III sessions, you can now also view the replays from my own server (100 Mbps fibre-optic connection). Dec. 7, 2008 06:58 AM EST |
SysUtils defines the well-known IntToStr and FloatToStr, which return a Unicode String - but not an AnsiString. Dec. 4, 2008 03:24 AM EST |
The TextFile of Delphi 2009 can only write AnsiStrings and not Unicode Strings, which means we can only write ANSI data to text files, right?
Wrong!
Since UTF8Strings are also (special) AnsiStrings, we can still write Unicode data to text files, provided we convert the Unicode String t... Dec. 3, 2008 03:18 AM EST |
Delphi 2009 introduces Generics and Anonymous Methods for Win32, and I've written some examples that not only demonstrate how to use Generics (specifically Generic Methods) and Anonymous Methods these features separately, but also how we can combine Generics and Anonymous Methods in a ... Dec. 2, 2008 06:02 AM EST |
Character literals between #128 and #255 – the so-called high ASCII values – have a specific value depending on the ANSI code page. Dec. 1, 2008 11:38 AM EST |
You can now download the CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 Trial with Delphi Prism ISO (at 1.4 GB), and request a trial key, in order to install a 14-day trial edition of the Delphi Prism portion of RAD Studio 2009 (or, if you already have a real key for RAD Studio 2009 or Delphi Prism 2009, yo... Nov. 28, 2008 05:38 AM EST |
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