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Steps for building iOS 32-bit applications for iOS 9 with XE7 and XE8 With RAD Studio 10 Seattle, you can build apps that run on iOS 9. A change in the iOS SDK is causing deployment issues on iOS 9 for 32-bit iOS applications built with XE7 and XE8. This is not an issue with RAD Studio 10 Seattle.  Below are some simple workaround steps for building iOS 32-bit applications for iOS 9 with XE7 and XE8.  This does not impact iOS 64-bit applications or Universal binaries built with XE8 that were deployed to 64-bit iOS de...
Improve Agility and Collaboration with ER/Studio XE7 On April 28, 2015, Embarcadero announced the XE7 release of our award-winning ER/Studio data modeling and architecture suite, with new features to improve agility and collaboration in enterprise data landscapes. Let’s highlight them, and for more details and a demonstration, you can watch the on-demand webinar from April 30th. ER/Studio continues to incorporate new capabilities and features to improve the user experience, enhance the data architecture, and address emerging industry technologies...

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Using existing ClientDataSet data in FDMemTable For today's #DelphiWeek post, I thought I would highlight how you can use existing ClientDataSet (.cds) data in FDMemTable. With this approach, you can also save existing .cds data as JSON, for example. In this tutorial, I am going to create a new application, but you could also use this approach with an existing application. Create a new Multi-Device Application (FireMonkey) or VCL Forms Application Place a TClientDataSet onto your form Place a TFDMemTable onto your form Right-click on th...

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How to get Android 4.4.x style for your XE7 dialog boxes Over the holidays, Hebron posted a question using the Embarcadero Community 3.0 Answers section. He asked "Why all the dialogs are using the "old" Android 2.x style? And how to force my Android app to use the 4.4.x style in all the dialogs like date picker and MessageDlg? Using StyleBook and modying the AndroidManifest.xml doesn't work. I am currently using XE7. Thanks in advance." I did some testing at my home office and confirmed that there was an issue. I sent an email to our FireMonkey ...
"Modernize Your VCL Applications Today!" webinar, Dec 16th, 11am CET If you have an existing VCL application and you want to modernize it to the latest technologies included in Delphi XE7, C++Builder XE7 and RAD Studio XE7 - this webinar is for YOU! Next week on Tuesday, December 16th, 11am Amsterdam time, I’m going to do a live, demo-oriented technical free webinar that will cover working with VCL styles, new Parallel Programming Library, migrating to FireDAC database access framework and building scalable, multitier solutions with DataSnap and Enterp...

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Photos from last week RAD Studio XE7 events Last week was probably the busiest in my presenting career with four events day after day in four different countries. I have promised to publish some photos, so here they are! Everywhere the reception of the new Delphi XE7, C++Builder XE7 and RAD Studio XE7 was fantastic. Tons of questions and in general developers are happy with the direction where this excellent product is going. Strong VCL support plus a lot of innovation around Multi-Device development with new unified "Multi-Device" proje...

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DevExpress announces VCL components v14.1.4 now supports XE7 DevExpress VCL component pack version 14.1.4 is now compatible with Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7. DevExpress CTO Julian Bucknall posted a blog entry on September 9 announcing the release with XE7 support. Julian said: "I am happy to announce that we released DevExpress VCL v14.1.4 early this morning with full support for 32-bit and 64-bit Delphi and C++Builder XE7. If you are an active DevExpress VCL customer, you can download the new version from the Download Center right now." Julia...
Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 first impressions from real developers I recently did a Survey Monkey asking for first impressions from some of the first Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 customers that appeared in our registration database.  Here are just a few of the many responses that we received in the first few hours. FireUI "The XE7 FireUI Multi-Device designer allows us to create a master view and customize the layout for numerous other devices. The development time it saves is worth the upgrade to XE7 alone." - Andrew Tierney - CEO - CastleSoft ...

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FireUI Multi-Device Designer and working with Views In RAD Studio XE7, we introduced the FireUI Multi-Device Designer. FireUI makes it easy to create user interfaces across multiple devices using a master form to share all user interface code, and then optimize inherited views for each target platform and device.  Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 provide a set of predefined views, including Windows Desktop, Surface Pro Tablet, Mac Desktop, iPhone, iPad, and several Android Phone, Tablet and Google Glass optimized views. Views are a me...
My RAD Studio XE7 World Tour Events Delphi XE7, C++Builder XE7 and RAD Studio XE7 have been very recently released and now Embarcadero Technical Evangelists and MVPs are on the road showing XE7 to developers all around the world. This week I have been in Hungary, Turkey and the Netherlands, and next week is going to be even busier with Prague, Brussels, Warsaw and Bucharest XE7 events. Instead of getting tired, I'm getting a lot of positive energy from happy developers that I meet on my way, all very enthusiastic about new RAD Stu...

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