Delphi for .NET Developer's Guide

Delphi for .NET Developer's Guide has been released. As of this writing there are no reviews on Amazon. I have also been reading Joel's How Microsoft lost the API war. This has turne

6/22/2004 Permalink

TeamB Blogs

TeamB is familiar to anyone who has been posting on the Borland newsgroups. They have now placed all their blogs together under one umbrella. It uses InterBase on the backend, the custom .Text Data Provider was written using Delphi for .NET

6/21/2004 Permalink

blogs.borland.com

A list of all the bloggers from Borland is online. There is both an OPML file and an RSS link to import all the bloggers into your RSS reader. I'm currently using Sharp Reader as my RSS reader.

6/18/2004 Permalink

GetLongHint

GetLongHint has been in Delphi since version one but gets very little credit. When you assign a hint to a component you can embed a pipe symbol in the hint.

Only the text before the pipe is shown in the hint. To get the rest you use long hint. eg:

procedure TForm1.DisplayHint(Sender: TObject);
begin
  StatusBar1.SimpleText := GetLongHint(Application.Hint);
end;

This is how you get a short hint to appear as a tool tip but a long one to appear in the status bar.

6/15/2004 Permalink

Indy Blog Team

The guys behind Indy are now blogging. I just wish PWAIN was finshed a few weeks sooner so they could have used it. PWAIN uses some Indy code and I have worked with Chad in the past. He is a nice bloke, I would look forward to working with him again in the future.

6/5/2004 Permalink