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By tim, on July 10th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI noticed the following remark from Embarcadero’s David Intersimone regarding Delphi, its application builder based on Pascal.
We are putting Delphi (and C++Builder) everywhere this year and over the next 5 years. Today you can use Delphi for Desktop, Client/Server, Multi-Tier, Cloud, Web, Web Services (REST and SOAP). This year you will also be
…continue reading Embarcadero promises Delphi everywhere: Mac, iOS this year, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone to follow
By tim, on March 25th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero has announced the AppWave Store, a forthcoming app store for Windows which uses application virtualization to avoid the hassles and risks of the usual Windows install process.
The idea is that purchasing apps for Windows will be as simple as installing an app on a mobile using the Apple app store or
…continue reading Another Windows app store – but this time it is virtual. Embarcadero’s AppWave promises instant installs
By tim, on March 4th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterDevExpress, which creates add-on components and tools for Windows and Delphi, has posted its 2011 roadmap. This shows more convergence between components for Silverlight and WPF:
In essence, by the end of the year, the functionality of DXGrid, DXEditors, DXDocking, and DXRibbon will be the same across both platforms.
As for Windows Forms, or
…continue reading DevExpress developers ask for more Windows Forms, say Silverlight and WPF not ready
By tim, on February 10th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve updated my SQLite3 Delphi wrapper for Unicode in Delphi 2009 and higher. Previous versions of the wrapper ducked the issue by using Ansi strings throughout.
I actually used Embarcadero Delphi XE for the development, but I would expect it to work in Delphi 2009 and higher, since it was in that version
…continue reading Using SQLite 3 with Unicode in Delphi
By tim, on February 4th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterA while back I worked on a Delphi wrapper for SQLite 3, which I published on this site as an open source project. Others amended it to support Free Pascal and Lazarus, so you can use it on Linux and on the Mac. I’ve not touched it for a couple of years; but recently
…continue reading Updated SQLite wrapper for Embarcadero Delphi (and Free Pascal)
By tim, on January 31st, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero has announced Starter Editions for both Delphi XE and C++ Builder XE, rapid development environments for native Windows applications.
These are not toy versions. The main technical difference between the Starter editions and the Professional versions are the absence of UML modelling, Class Explorer and Resource Manager tools. You also miss out on
…continue reading Delphi and C++ Builder XE Starter Editions announced
By tim, on September 14th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve just picked up that Delphi XE, the latest RAD Windows development suite from Embarcadero, includes licenses for older versions going back to Delphi 7.
There’s an explanation and list of what’s on offer here. Delphi 7 was the last version to use the old fully native code IDE and is delightfully fast and
…continue reading Delphi XE includes licenses for older versions back to Delphi 7
By tim, on September 1st, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve successfully installed Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (including Delphi). I’m running Windows 7 64-bit. On first quitting RAD Studio (which is still called bds.exe – it stands for Borland Development Studio) I got this message:
Fortunately I know exactly what this means. Read here for my earlier explanation. And if I go
…continue reading Delphi XE still not quite ready for Vista/Windows 7
By tim, on August 10th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero has announced RAD Studio XE and will be showing a number of “sneak peaks” during August prior to release in “early September”. You can see the previews and further information here.
The suite includes Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE (Delphi for Visual Studio and .NET) and RadPHP XE.
The first preview
…continue reading New Delphi, RAD Studio XE announced
By tim, on May 16th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterEmbarcadero has published an updated roadmap for its Delphi development tools: Delphi, C++Builder and the RAD Studio shared IDE. These tools combine the Object Pascal (Delphi) or C++ language with a visual component library and native code compiler for Windows.
Chief Technical Architect Michael Rozlog outlines four products which are being worked on, including
…continue reading What next for Embarcadero Delphi? Roadmap with Mac, Linux support published.
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