Comments on: SQL-to-Code Macro http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/04/04/37810 News of interest to Delphi, .NET, and InterBase developers Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:54:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: James http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/04/04/37810#comment-3494 James Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:20:27 +0000 http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/04/04/37810#comment-3494 I think the free online sql formatter can help you do is instantly. http://www.wangz.net/gsqlparser/sqlpp/sqlformat.htm I think the free online sql formatter can help you do is instantly.

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]]> By: Jan Derk http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/04/04/37810#comment-3466 Jan Derk Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:11:16 +0000 http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/04/04/37810#comment-3466 Hopefully, CodeGear will add support for multi-line strings to Delphi, like all other modern languages already have. That way we the developers would not have to resort to hacks like this. Plus it will make the source code more readable. Andreas Hausladen already created an extension which does this, but I like to see it integrated: http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/archives/50-Multiline-string-constants.html Hopefully, CodeGear will add support for multi-line strings to Delphi, like all other modern languages already have.

That way we the developers would not have to resort to hacks like this. Plus it will make the source code more readable.

Andreas Hausladen already created an extension which does this, but I like to see it integrated:
http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/archives/50-Multiline-string-constants.html

]]> By: Ken White http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/04/04/37810#comment-3463 Ken White Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:28:59 +0000 http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2008/04/04/37810#comment-3463 Nice post. I have a better way, though. Peter Below posted code for a console app a while back called "cliptoconst", which takes text off the clipboard and automatically formats it for the IDE (including + and ; in the proper places). I added it to the RAD Studio 2007 Tools menu, assigning a mnemonic shortcut key (C, for "ClipToConst"). So going from SQL Server Management Studio or Visual Query Builder to the code editor is simple: 1. Select the text in the query tool and then Ctrl+C. 2. Switch to the IDE, type "const" and Enter. 3. Alt+T+C (for Tools->ClipToConst) 4. Ctrl+V to paste. Voila! Now I have a properly formatted (and indented) constant declaration. Nice post.

I have a better way, though. Peter Below posted code for a console app a while back called "cliptoconst", which takes text off the clipboard and automatically formats it for the IDE (including + and ; in the proper places). I added it to the RAD Studio 2007 Tools menu, assigning a mnemonic shortcut key (C, for "ClipToConst"). So going from SQL Server Management Studio or Visual Query Builder to the code editor is simple:

1. Select the text in the query tool and then Ctrl+C.
2. Switch to the IDE, type "const" and Enter.
3. Alt+T+C (for Tools->ClipToConst)
4. Ctrl+V to paste.

Voila! Now I have a properly formatted (and indented) constant declaration.

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