Senthil Kumar's Blog

Embarcedero has started a new marketing site (http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/) that features David I.

There is a paper based games that you can download as pdf from http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/fun/index.html

The other games includes the trivia and a underwater game that you can play and save David from fishes and sharks .The game was written using Adobe Flash…

RAD Studio XE is the upcoming 2011 release of RAD Studio by Embarcadero that will include Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE and RadPHP XE .

Did you notice XE ??? It is the new badge for all new major Embarcadero product releases where X signifies heterogeneous and E for Embarcadero .

Here’s a Video on the RAD Studio XE Preview – Productivity Enhancements

Skype is a software that allows users to make voice , video calls or sent text messages over internet.

I never realised that the application that i use ( skype ) was developed using Delphi . I found this information in the following links

Good Quality Applications Built with Delphi
Skype Shop
Here is the further information on the skype .

I read an article in one of the the popular site, The Register on Exam board deletes C and PHP from CompSci A-levels
The article states that the Exam Board ( Schools teaching the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance ) will withdraw C# ,C and PHP from the syllabus of A-level computer science programme following the low intake of the above programming languages .
The pdf document in the article also states that

These following components have been used for the database access since the introduction of Delphi.
BDE ( Deprecated )
BDE and SQL Links ( Deprecated )
dbGO – Wrapper components for ADO
Interbase Express – Specialized interbase components
BDP – Wrapper for ADO.NET/Delphi ( Deprecated )

Recently , when i wrote an application in Delphi 7 and tried to compile the program , the virus scanner identified it immediately as a virus and then deleted the exe.

I was in a shock for few weeks while making some research on it to see if i was really creating a virus while compiling the Delphi Program.I was also worried if it was the virus that affects the Delphi 7 IDE that was in news recently.

If your Delphi application accesses data using the Borland Database Engine (BDE) and you wish to deploy it on a user’s client computer, then it is necessary that you deploy the BDE too.

You may receive the following error , if the BDE is not deployed .

These are the control characters in delphi that are used to format strings.
If a string value has to be entered in a multiline , we can use this .
Eg:
var
testString : String;

testString := ‘Senthil’ + #13#10 + ‘Kumar’;

To include the RDC runtime library into Delphi, start a new project in Delphi and follow these steps:

1. Select the Project menu and then the Import Type Library.

2. In the Import Type Library, Select Crystal Report x ActiveX Designer Runtime Library and rename the TReport and TDatabase class names to CRReport and TCRDatabase to aoid the naming conflicts