Project Magician, Package Magician and Selective Debugging now support Delphi 10.4 Sydney.

As some of you might have guessed already, I have been a bit busy with the current beta of the new Delphi 10.4 Sidney. Usually one is not allowed to talk about the beta, but I have been given permission from Embarcadero to blog about some of the new features and improvements. Please note that … Continue reading "Delphi 10.4 leverages VCL Styles"

In the previous blog post we learned how to decorate a field of a class with attributes to adjust the Json serialization to our needs. This post is about serializing fields of type TObjectList<T> or descendants thereof. Let’s recap the problem and the final question: The Json serializer does a good job for array of … Continue reading "Serializing Generic Object Lists with TJson"

Serializing objects to Json as well as de-serializing them with the Delphi standard libraries has been subject to many discussions. While the majority suggests to use another library or a self implemented solution, there are others who would prefer the built-in tools for a couple of reasons. Simplicity and the availability with every (decent) Delphi … Continue reading "Serializing Objects with TJson"

Today Delphi is going to be 25 years old! Old? Really! My son is one year older and I still would rate him young. I for myself can remember the years between 25 and 30 as some of the best years in my life. It took almost 10 more years until my first encounter with … Continue reading "Happy 25th Birthday, Delphi!"