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If you follow Delphi at all, then you will have noticed lots of recent activity around the upcoming release of Delphi (Rad Studio) XE2.  And with big ticket items like native 64 bit, Mac and iOS support, FireMonkey, VCL themes, data binding (VCL and FireMonkey), etc, there is a lot to be excited about.  I find myself looking for opportunities to use some of these new features. However, and with

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TDUG: The Delphi 2010 Tour with Anders Ohlsson is coming to Toronto Wed.Sep. 23.All attendees will be entered in a drawing for a free copy of RAD Studio 2010 Professional.*Learn from the experts, hear from your peers and talk to ourevangelists in person. See how Delphi 2010 and RAD Studio 2010 cantake you to a new level of productivity with touch/gestureapplication development, Firebird support,

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CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Delphi 2009 (Tiburon).By now, you've probably heard that Delphi 2009 will have generics for Win32. The first thing I always think of is type safe collections that don't require casting. Someone asked what has been added to the RTL to take advantage of the feature. In this first release, the following were added to the RTL

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CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Delphi 2009 (Tiburon).If you've seen some of the Delphi 2009 demos, you might wonder why they're showing off PasswordChar in TEdit. After all, the feature has been available since Delphi 1.You'll miss it if you aren't looking closely, but what they're showing is a minor fix in Delphi's Windows theme support. If the password

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CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Delphi 2009 (Tiburon).Delphi 2009 adds TextHint support to edit controls, a nice feature that lets you show a grayed out text watermark. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Delphi 2009 extends this support to TComboBox on XP, normally only supported on Vista. Under the covers, they send the Windows message

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CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Tiburon.You'll find significant new content in the Delphi 2009 help. For example, protected events, fields, methods and properties are now listed with each class's Members. A definite improvement over previous releases.

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CodeGear has given me permission to blog about the upcoming release of Tiburon.Here's a small but welcome change. Recent versions of Delphi required the full .Net SDK, at least partly for the help system, and this takes up quite a lot of space. Delphi 2009 doesn't need all of this and just installs the latest version of the Microsoft Document Explorer (or version 8 for Win2K). For the sake of

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Due to recent blog postings about TMS Software and their Ribbon Toolbar Component set I do feel the need to state a few things about a fellow CodeGear Technology Partner.I just wanted to point out that in my limited experience with TMS Software, I have found them to be an outstanding vendor.And now that I think of it, this might be a good time to give TXAMLViewer a try.

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A couple of polls have been posted lately asking what your Delphi IDE you use most for development.Delphi 7 is well in the lead at based on the profile details at Delphi Praxis. It looks like this only includes about 17% of the membership. If you're a member, you might want to update your profile.The front page poll at CodeGearGuru shows Delphi 2007 slightly in the lead over Delphi 6/7. If you

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CodeGear released RAD Studio 2007 and has announced new pricing. This pricing and their faster release schedule has helped spark some discussion about software assurance (SA) and whether a subscription is worth the cost and risk.SACalc is a simple application to compare the cost of purchasing Delphi upgrades against SA over time. The prices shown are for RAD Studio 2007. You can find prices

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You may have seen this image from Steve Trefethen where he demonstrates how the VCL in Delphi 2007 supports Vista Themes out of the box.Highlander features an updated version of Delphi for .Net, which supports .Net 2.0 and also handles Vista themes properly.

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I have been given permission to blog about the Highlander beta.There has been some discussion on the challenges of managing the new help system and some of the improvements we can expect to see. I especially liked Dee's comment about restoring code examples and including them in the automated testing suite.Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. From using the help in Highlander, I can

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Say what you will about the help in Delphi 2007, there are some things that I like better than in previous versions. I like that can navigate using the index when I'm looking at content and how more of that content is visible on a single page without the need for popups.Something that really stood out for me was the class hierarchy diagrams. In older versions of Delphi, they looked something

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