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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:30 am Post subject: Delphi News October/November 2006 Reply with quote

1. Internet Explorer 7 Out Now


Quote from Steve Trefethen's Blog:
The IE blog has announced the availability of IE7 so be sure to install this reg file if you're running Borland's BDS 2005/2006 on the same system and you use the ASP.NET/HTML designer otherwise you're like to run into 'Access Denied' error messages.

2. Delphi and JBuilder Free Seminars


If you are using previous versions of Delphi, this seminar will help you to get up to speed with the latest version of Delphi and take advantage of the new and enhanced capabilities for Win32 development.


3. Delphi 2006 Survey


http://blogs.borland.com/abauer/archive/2006/10/30/28814.aspx

4. Threading in C#.NET


Two great guides to threading in C#, thanks to Blong!
http://www.albahari.com/threading/
http://research.microsoft.com/~birrell/papers/ThreadsCSharp.pdf

5. ASP.NET AJAX (formerly ATLAS) Released


See more information on the ASP.NET AJAX official site.

6. Borland Delays 3rd Quarter Results


See this incredibly speculative article on The Register:
A delay to Borland's filing suggests the company is getting its paperwork together or in final talks, and will name the buyer either during the third-quarter call or soon after

Does it? :-S

7. Delphi and Vista


There's a great article here: Creating Windows Vista Ready Applications with Delphi.

Vista, Office 2007 and .NET 3 have gone to manufacturing this week (thanks to Brian for this tip-off). So the first official release of Vista should be upon us very soon.

Using Delphi 2005 to develop .NET applications to run under Vista should be easy enough but, as we all know, Vista has a vast array of new features in the GUI department (the Aero user experience as MS are calling it) which could make our old fashioned XP apps look a bit outdated. There's no point turning Aero off and pretending you're still running XP either (most developers I know did this when XP came out, reskinning their XP machines to look like Windows 2000); Vista and Aero will be here to stay and you don't want your application to be stuck in the past!

There's a list of new features in Vista on MSDN which shows some screenshots of the various key features of the user experience which are new.

Firstly, there's the new font, Segoe, which is the font of choice for Vista apps. The font is optimised for use with ClearType which is on by default in Vista. Tahoma is so last year!

Secondly, the "Application" object in Delphi apps causes problems with some of the new and graphically-snazzy features of Vista. Very briefly, the Application object is actually the primary form in our application, while what we think of as our main form (lets call it Form1) is a sub form which the hidden Application form pops up and down as the taskbar button is pressed. This is a problem because Vista allows us to preview the contents of our applications main form when we hover over the taskbar button. For Delphi apps, all we see when we hover is a blank form with the app's icon in the middle. A fix for this can be found in the article linked at the top of this section.

Thirdly, standard message boxes and dialogs are different in Vista. In message boxes, the "main question" is shown in a bold blue type with extra info in standard black text underneath. Delphi's standard dialogs don't support this. This article shows how we can deal with this problem.

Fourthly: Images! I went into the travel agents a few months ago and watched as the girl behind the desk used a windows application that was so blatently coded in Delphi it raised a smile. How did I know? Obvious really, it was using the nasty 16 colour images from Delphi 1. Delphi deveopers have been behind the rest of the world for years when it comes to button images; the GlyFx image set which ships with newer versions of Delphi has brought us up to date with Windows 2000, but few of us have started using nice alpha-blended button images in XP. In Vista, we should! Theses PNG components, including a PNG Image and PNG Image List provide one answer.

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Post Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:56 am Post subject: Reply with quote
Just one day after the DG meeting, there's finally some news on DevCo, the Borland Developer Tools Group. Seems that The Register was right!

Read all about CodeGear, the new developer tools company on Allen Bauer's Blog.

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