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Cross Platform Object Pascal (Part II)

In this part, I am going to do comparison between Delphi and Chrome. I try to illustrate why Delphi goes this way and Chrome approaches another. Correct me if anything is wrong. The IDE Chrome p...

Cross Platform Object Pascal (Part I)

This post was original named as RemObjects Updates because after reviewing what RemObjects has done in the past two years, I am sure this company is doing something good. But soon there was a th...

GrapeVine Voice: Common csc.exe Frozen Issue

When I started CBC in 2005, I never thought that there would be so many options I needed to provide. Therefore, it was in 2006 I began to search for preferences management system. And that’s why se...

WiX 3 for Visual Studio

WiX is a set of tools to create MSI installers. The only problem is that its VS integration is not perfect. And now Visual Studio team tries to integrate WiX 3 into next version of Visual Studio, w...

Sao Paulo Trip Delay Again And The Cost

Have to say I never thought a delay could cost so much. I cancelled my room reservation and flight tickets at weekends, which totally costs more than 200 USD. Yes, luckily my manager said the compa...

InstallAware Update for .NET 3.5 RTM

I have just installed Visual Studio 2008 Express at home last Wednesday, and this morning I received a notification from InstallAware that its update for .NET 3.5 is ready. It is so fast that I sud...

GrapeVine Voice: Vista Dialogs on Windows XP

At this moment, I know that it is possible to emulate those Vista only dialogs on Windows XP. JSDialog is perfect for Delphi but for .NET, there is no such a thing. I have been using Vista_API lib...

Product Review: jZip, A 7-Zip Striker

I have been using 7-Zip for years. In this way I can save a little money. But after saying goodbye to WinZip or WinRAR, I miss the beautiful manager GUI of archives. The 7-Zip default manager looks...