Since I've been working on the HTML/ASP.NET designer one of the things I've noticed over the years is that our type library import tool improperly imports certain declarations particularly when it comes to const (or [in]) parameters. I've run into method declarations where at least one parameter is declared ...

Mozilla's Firefox browser is officially 1.0! Congratulations!

The title of this post is an error message that can occur if you are using Delphi 8.0 and trying to create an ASP.NET application using IIS as the target server. I wrote this error message and for that I apologize, as it's a terrible message. The error ...

Click to enlarge In C#Builder 1.0 and now Delphi 8.0 the IDE has a Welcome page which is little more than Microsoft's WebBrowser control hosted by the IDE pointing to a rather static HTML page. In it's current incarnation the Welcome page is rather lacking but ...

Just wanted to welcome Pat Kerpan, Borland's own CTO to the blogsphere. Welcome Pat!

Now that the 1.0 preview release of Firefox is out I just gotta say again how nice it is to have a browser that keeps getting better and better. Some of the new features that I really like are incremental search and the highlighting of the address bar when ...

To start off I'd like to address the issue of why we need a formatter at all. Our ASP.NET/HTML designer leverages the MSHTML control as its design surface and as a result we have to deal with the fact that this control discards any/all formatting including whitespace preservation when working ...

Diamondback, like Delphi 8, supports code completion on ASP.NET server controls from within the code editor as well as the tag editor. This makes working with ASP.NET tags much easier and helps prevent mistyping tag and attibute names helping keep your development time productive. In Diamondback we've changed ...

Nice, Microsoft develops a font, Consolas, they claim is "intended for use in programming environments" and then proceeds to wrap it in an installer which requires a liscensed copy of VS.NET on target machine. I guess it should have read intended for use in VS.NET. Who thinks up this stuff?Share ...

Quoted:"...but our perception and wall-clock timing tells us there is at least a 300% increase in speed, if not more."-Dan MiserDistribuCon I don't recall mentioning the ISAPIThreadPool unit here and recently Allen pointed out a Borland public newsgroup post where a customer was talking about the dramatic performance difference between ...

In case you were looking for blog entries I've written they've moved to my new blog. You can use either the complete archive link or the search box in the upper righthand corner of my site to find old entries. This is my final post here on the Borland blog ...

Recently I got a new machine here at work and up to that point I was a single machine single monitor guy but, that's all changed. I sit next to Mark Edington and from the day he got dual monitors he's been telling me that I just don't know what ...

I've seen this mentioned before but since I just posted about Yahoo's Go for TV I figured what the heck, might was well throw Skype into the mix too. Skype is only slightly harder to recognize as being written in Delphi but only because they've decided to package the whole ...

Today I was searching for this old project called myHTPC which used to be located here but now redirects you here. So I downloaded and installed Yahoo Go for TV and low and behold rtl70.bpl, vcl70.bpl and vclx70.bpl sitting right in c:\Program FilesYahoo!Yahoo! Go for TV. In case you're not ...

To gain some added flexibility I've decided to move my blog, here are the details: URL: http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/ RSS Feed: Please update your bookmarks/feeds to point to these new URLs. Unfortunately, this version of .Text doesn't provide an easy mechanism to perform an HTTP 301 Permanently moved ...

If you're a developer who uses the TWebBrowser component I'd highly recommend you download and install IE7 RC1 and put your application through it's paces. We've been testing our shipping products namely, C#B 1.0, Delphi 8, BDS 2005 and BDS2006 which use the IE rendering engine for the HTML/ASP.NET designers ...

This post is more of a bookmark to the other posts I've written recently dicussing issues related to IE7 with the difference being that I added "Turbo Explorer" to the title so that search engines will pick it up and help people find my previous posts. If you're using Turbo ...

In my last blog post I mentioned an issue with IE7 and BDS where the ASP.NET designer fails to load with an "Access Denied" error and I also updated that post with the workaround though I feel it's important enough to have it's own post. It turns out that this ...

In case you were looking for blog entries I've written they've moved to my new blog. You can use either the complete archive link or the search box in the upper righthand corner of my site to find old entries. This is my final post here on the Borland blog server as all new content will be on the new site.

In case you were looking for blog entries I've written they've moved to my new blog. You can use either the complete archive link or the search box in the upper righthand corner of my site to find old entries. This is my final post here on the Borland blog server as all new content will be on the new site.