October 2007

I had some feedback regarding the last post about “persist your forms”. Well, first of all: not the forms are persisted as streams. I picked certain components like edits and grids and selected certain properties which are being stored and restored in an ECO model. Thus, a user always has the same interface to work with. Data from edit boxes is being retrieved and the form position is being restored Continue reading

A couple of weeks ago, I announced that I have a component in the works that persists information on your forms. It also takes into consideration what user is using the application so that if you have a client/server app, a user gets the same user interface at any workstation. People who attended my ECO session at EKON even were able to see how it works and got some of Continue reading

You can bind ECO Expression Handles to any grid in VCL.NET that supports TDataSource. This is one of the fab new features of RAD Studio 2007. TDBAdvGrid from TMS Software comes with some decent sort mechanisms. However, if you only want to load a subset of the complete data into the grid, which is handled by the PageMode property being set to True, you Continue reading

Today, I would like to announce the beta release of SiECOLogger, a plugin for SmartInspect from Gurock Software (http://www.smartinspect.com) that is designed to log ECO classes. ECO classes contain a lot of meta information that can only be deduced using reflection in a very complicated way or other run-time mechanisms. This specialised plugin will help you to successfully log ECO classes and will make debugging applications written for the Microsoft .NET Continue reading