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The VCL Persistence Framework comprised of a set of components, property and component editors.
The initial concept for this project started on 7 Jul 2004, but work on it didn't began until a few weeks ago. [Note: I've found further evidence that indicated I've started toying with this idea even earlier, on 25 May].
Each component within the VCL Persistence Framework has the ability to store and retrieve its value from a persistent storage, such as an INI file, the registry, a XML file or any of it's related descendents derived from a common ancestor.
The purpose of the VCL Persistence Framework is to allow me to quickly develop programs, without concerning myself with storage of the values specified in the components, since all I did to do was set it up properly initially, and the components would do the rest of the work themselves.
The components themselves behave (hopefully) like the database components written by Borland itself.
More articles about these components will be coming soon...
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.
This article discusses the new Delphi 8 property access specifiers.
A method pointer is now the same as a global procedure, ie, procedure of object = procedure.