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{ Monthly Archives } February 2005

MS Wants to Help Test Your Applications

If you have a .NET 1.1 app you’ll be migrating to .NET 2.0, the BCL folks at Microsoft want to help you test it.

Delphi 2005 Update 2 On The Way

In the borland.public.delphi.non-technical newsgroup, Danny Thorpe posted this:

Update 2 is in the pipe moving towards production. It’ll be going through regression testing for a couple of weeks yet. Hopefully nothing will explode and require a restart. Pipeline stalls really hurt the schedule.

2005 02 24 Delphi Comments (4)

Crystal Reports RDC Questions and Sample Application

I’ve just posted a new article:

…people occasionally send me questions about the Crystal Reports ActiveX controls. For the benefit of anyone else compelled to use these things, here are my answers.

A sample application is included.

2005 02 24 Delphi
InterBase Comments (0)

Crystal Reports Report Design Component Questions

I didn’t want to be an authority on using the Crystal Reports ActiveX components in Delphi. I don’t like Crystal that much, and the care and feeding of ActiveX controls isn’t something I do recreationally. But I have in the past confessed to using the Crystal RDC — my company made me do it, I swear — and so people occasionally send me questions about them. For the benefit of anyone else compelled to use these things, here are my answers.

2005 02 24 Delphi
InterBase Comments (37)

Where’s My Call Stack?

I use the call stack window fairly heavily when debugging. There are a few things which can cause it to be empty when an exception is raised in older versions of Delphi…

2005 02 24 Delphi Comments (2)

Danny Thorpe Interviewed by TheServerSide.NET

A video interview with Danny Thorpe:

Borland Chief Scientist Danny Thorpe talks about the challenges of moving the Delphi language to .NET, working with Microsoft on the .NET Framework, and also gives his thoughts about what improvements he’d like to see in the .NET Framework.

2005 02 22 .NET
Delphi
General Software Development Comments (0)

Rdb History

Here is an ad (circa 1984) for "two new relational database products, VAX Rdb/VMS and VAX Rdb/ELN" along with Datatrieve 3.0. And this is a history of Rdb/VMS. InterBase users will see some familiar terminology.

2005 02 21 Databases
InterBase Comments (1)

InterBase Database Comparer VCL Component

Database Comparer helps you to compare, synchronize and update databases structure. You can compare one database with another database or database with DDL/SQL script or even two DDL/SQL scripts!

2005 02 21 Delphi
InterBase Comments (1)

Multiversion Concurrency Control Before InterBase

I’ve been doing some reading in the area of concurrency theory, and, interestingly, have found some citations on the use of multiple record versions for concurrency control and recovery which predate InterBase.

2005 02 18 Databases
InterBase Comments (11)

NGen Significantly Improved for .NET 2.0

NGen, the .NET native image generator, has been significantly improved for .NET 2.0.

2005 02 18 .NET
General Software Development Comments (1)

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