I have just downloaded and installed  "TMS Smooth Controls Pack" from the Delphi registered users site and I'm totally impressed. This is exactly what Delphi needs out-of-the-box. TMS components look slick, elegant and modern. Delphi's getting old? No way. It continues to be the best IDE and the visual component development is in the heart of RAD or "Rapid Application Development" invented with Delphi 1. It makes such a difference what visual component you are dropping on the form and manipulate...

Did you know that it is so easy to extend Delphi 2009 IDE? Delphi 2009 provides a dedicated Open Tools API interface that let you interact and extend the functionality of the Delphi and C++Builder 2009 IDE. "Eric's Open Tools API FAQ and Resource" is probably the best place to learn about Open Tools API. Eric Berry is well known in Delphi community as author of GExperts extension to all versions of Delphi and also as expert on Tools API itself. In this post I would like to provide step-by-...

Delphi and C++Builder 2009 are considered by many developers that I have met recently the best versions ever of these two great products. There are significant improvements at all levels of product functionality, starting from new Unicode support, new programming languages features, improvements to RTL/VCL, IDE improvements and brand new DataSnap client/server architecture. Here are some of the Delphi and C++Builder 2009 online resources categorized for your convenience:-) Embarcadero Upda...

This week there were two Delphi and C++Builder 2009 launch events in Prague and in Bratislava. In Prague there were 205 developers and in Bratislava around 50. Good numbers of attendees and very interesting questions from the audience. There was an interesting question about the future of native applications on Windows. Check out "wizard behind the curtain" DDJ article for Michael Swindell take on native development. I personally do not expect Microsoft to rewrite Windows in managed code ...

Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 is a very solid release. So is the newest "Death Magnetic" album from Metallica. I'm sitting right now on the plane to Lisbon and feel a little bit like a musician on the tour. Different cities every week. There should be a Delphi 2009 European Tour T-shirt with tour agenda on the back. I'm just one of the many people involved in presenting C++Builder 2009 and Delphi 2009 across the world. David I and Greg Keller, Embarcadero Chief Evangelists, are probably the m...

Delphi 2009 i C++Builder 2009 już są dostępne! Jeśli interesujesz się programowaniem, a szczególnie jeżeli programujesz w Delphi albo w C++, nie możesz przegapić piątku, 12 września - BSC Polska organizuje premierę najnowszej wersji Delphi i C++Buildera!Na stronie http://www.codegear.pl/seminaria/delphi2009/ można zarejestrować się na bezpłatną konferencję, która odbędzie się w Hotelu Lord w Warszawie, Al. Krakowska 218.Od 25 sierpnia rozpoczął się cykl webinariów omawiających szczegóły nowego D...