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I refactor your old code for free!

Do You Have Legacy Delphi Code? I Can Modernize It! Are you still working with old Delphi codebases using AnsiStrings, raw pointers in arrays, TStringList misusage, hardcoded typecasts, goto, blocking timers, Application.ProcessMessages, or excessive global variables? Would you like to upgrade it to modern coding standards, ensuring compatibility with Delphi 11.3 and 64-bit environments? I […]

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Delphi breakpoints

Breakpoints A breakpoint tells the debugger to pause the program’s execution at the location (line of code) where the breakpoint is. We can set source breakpoints in the Code Editor before we run the program, but also while the program is already running. The places where we can place breakpoints are marked by a blue

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Delphi XE7 IDE crash due to CnPAck MSDN Help Integrated

After spending 2 full hours I managed to find the culprit for an IDE crash (access violation in VCL210). The cause was …drum roll please… CnPack! There was a palette in IDE’s main tool bar called MSDN Help. However, when I right click to configure the toolbar, the palette was not listed there to show

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Caching issues with Delphi packages

The problem   My Delphi XE started to act strange lately. I have unit Unit2.pas that uses ‘FormatBytes’ declared in Unit1.pas. When I try to compile Unit2 Delphi says that it cannot find FormatBytes. But FormatBytes is there, in Unit1 !!Unit1 belongs to Package1 and Unit2 to Package2 (Package2 depends on Package1).Even more strange: if

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Google Drive still unreliable (How to fix ‘Primary key must be unique’ error)

I hate Google Drive. It is haunted by too many bugs.  Recently my GDrive application started showing a “primary key must be unique” error message, asking me to disconnect the drive and start all over again. I did that. Took few hours to resynchronize it all. But the next day I got the same error

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