August 2008

Last Thursday, I visited a CodeGear event in Offenbach, Germany. Offenbach is close to Frankfurt, a city a lot of people traveling by plane should know.

The event was just awesome! Not only did I get a first-hand preview of Delphi 2009 and some excellent information on other Embarcadero products, but I was able to catch up with fellow CodeGear contractors and community members in person. Networking is just something one… Continue reading

Whenever I get a new version of Delphi, I create a plain VCL Forms Application and browse the tool palette.

I love what I found with a first glimpse! There is a tab called “Ribbon Controls” that contains 5 additional VCL Controls to allow you to build applications with Ribbon support.

• TRibbon
• TRibbonComboBox
• TRibbonSpinEdit
• TScreenTipsManager
• TScreenTipsPopup

In order to get known with the functionality, I opened the Ribbon demo, which also is included with Delphi 2009. This… Continue reading

Just as for Highlander, I am very proud having been chosen as one of the Beta-Bloggers by CodeGear. I will do my best to point out interesting new things about Delphi 2009 on my blog that hopefully make the wait for you a little bit easier until Delphi 2009 is being released.

I just finished installing to be precise and I am amazed already.

Thinking back to last year, I filled… Continue reading

Let us look at some common means that different frameworks use to deliver a result to this question.

As I mentioned before, I mostly used the standard .NET components or VCL controls. Data-based VCL controls can be bound to TDataSource (and derivatives due to polymorphism). If an item is being selected, the cursor in the source moves accordingly. Thus, there is no difficulty to determine which row in the dataset it… Continue reading