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Why you should not use WITH in your Delphi code (but there is this one cool hack...)

Delphi Programming Best Practices - Avoid WITH Statements There have been many discussions over the years about using WITH statements in your Pascal code. We just had another short with-related di...

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Global Delphi Summit 2024 in Amsterdam

Delphi Summit - June 2024. Have you heard? There is a great convention dedicated to Delphi Developers coming this June to Amsterdam! The 2024 Global Delphi Summit is sponsored by GDK Software, E...

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Recent system outages on Embarcadero websites

There has been persistent connectivity issues recently to Embarcadero websites including their DocWiki, Quality Portal and others. The issue is being actively discussed in multiple channels includ...

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How to enable DEP and ASLR to reduce the attack vector of your Delphi applications on Windows

TLDR; for 32-bit applications add this line to your DPR: {$SETPEOPTFLAGS $140} for 64-bit applications use: {$SETPEOPTFLAGS $160} {$SetPEFlags IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE} or, if you do no...

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DelphiCon 2021 coming soon! Free 3-Day online conference for Delphi developers around the world.

Let it be known to Delphi developers around the world that DelphiCon 2021 is almost here! Click here to find out more details and to view the schedule of this free three-day online event. You can ...

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Quick fix for for RAD Studio 11 license failure during installation

License Fix RAD Studio 11 was just released today! For some users, you may have trouble getting RAD Studio installed due to license failures. One way of solving this issue was posted today on Twitt...

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The end of RAD Studio 10.x named releases with version 11 coming soon

Embarcadero just announced a change in how they will name the next release of RAD Studio but first a little history of Delphi version numbering… based on my notes and memory Turbo Pascal 1.0 came o...

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Follow up patch for Delphi 10.4.2 released to address Try/Finally issue

A third patch is now available via GetIt for Delphi 10.4.2 which should address RSP-33117 which is an issue with Try/Finally under non-Windows platforms. As mentioned in a previous blog post, this ...

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Announcement: DelphiCon 2020 coming November 17-19th

As just announced on the Embarcadero Blogs site, there’s a new free online Delphi conference coming next month sponsored by Embarcadero. This is different than the normal CodeRage events and this o...

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About binary compatibility on new versions of Delphi

The latest Delphi version 10.4.1 was released yesterday and there’s always a few questions about third party components and version upgrades so I thought I’d put up a quick post in response. Every...

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RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney is out - a few tweaks required and Community Edition notes

RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney has been released, and it’s the biggest release in many years containing many improvements across the board. With such a large release, there was bound to be a few minor a...

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Revisiting TThreadedQueue and TMonitor in Delphi

Unfortunately, both TThreadedQueue and TMonitor have a tainted history in Delphi. The original release of TThreadedQueue looked promising, with Mason Wheeler even classifying the new feature in Del...