The readme file of “Delphi 7 Service Pack” seems to be out! The Delphi 7 update is known as “Delphi 7.1 Update”. Malcolm Groves...

I judge my blog to be fairly powerful in that it is attracting all kinds of Delphi developers, so I'm gonna put out a survey now, that someone raised in...

What is the difference in behaviour in the code shown below in Delphi 7, and Delphi 8? Hint: IInterface and Inheritance (Click if you have Delphi 8 installed...

There are two new undocumented procedure directives in the Delphi 8 compiler. Presumably, these are in preparation for Delphi 9, which is coming at the...

The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the following predefined conditional symbols. Symbol Description CIL Indicates the machine code model, roughly corresponding...

A mystery concerning the development of a Control Panel module in Delphi 8, and the lack of initialization code starting up....

The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the FINITEFLOAT directive. Type SWITCH Syntax {$FINITEFLOAT ON} or {$FINITEFLOAT OFF} Default {$FINITEFLOAT ON} Scope...

Dan beat me to it , so I won't be blogging about it.

Continued discussion of undocumented Delphi 8 Property Access Specifiers, and other ways of adding and removing delegates / events handlers, including clearing the list of all the delegates / event handlers.

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In Part 1 of this article, I discussed about the UNSAFECODE directive, and promised to discuss this language feature in Part 2 of the article. Well, if you're waiting for this article, wait no more! Here it is!...

Introduction to the .NET Spy that was written using Delphi 7 and Delphi 8....

The method in which I enabled scheduled publishing to occur in .Text is described in this article, together with source code in Delphi 7....

More about the Control Panel applet porting...

UPDATE: According to Allen and Hallvard, that would be considered a breaking interface change, and is considered a BIG no-no. Read more about breaking...

Random ramblings on Demeanor and software licensing article links...

Some interesting discussion is happening at Raymond Chen's blog, “ The Old New Thing ” in relation to C++ and C#. Raymond recently wrote an...

2004 - Delphi 9 with .NET and Win32 in one IDE 2005 - Delphi for Whidbey, .NET Framework 2.0 2006 - Delphi for Longhorn Source: Bob's Delphi Stuff

Well, who's Blake Stone and Charles “Chuck” Jazdzewski anyway? Blake Stone was the CTO at Borland, and the JBuilder architect. Chuck Jazdzewski...

In Delphi 8 Control Panel Applet Mystery , I wrote about how I tried porting the Control Panel applet from Delphi 7 and some problems associated with it...

The AUTOBOX article is updated to include newly discovered information....

Think before you speak!...

Consider the following program for Delphi 8. If the dot is removed from the $DEFINE compiler directive, the code compiles, otherwise, it fails. Why? program...

Records in Delphi 8 has been extended. In previous versions of Delphi, records can only be defined thus, recordTypeName = [packed] record fieldList1: type1;...

A method pointer is now the same as a global procedure, ie, procedure of object = procedure.

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In “ That Which We Dare Not Name ”, Borland Chief Scientist, Danny Thorpe discussed Borland's internal concern over information disclosed in...