'Coding' Category
How to make a very small windows service executable
I a recent stack overflow question, a user asked how to make a Delphi generated NT Service executable smaller. There was some debate, if Delphi was appropriate to do this and if the executable size it generates was to big. Let me answer those two question as I see them: The size is not to [...]
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New version of SimpleStorage and other updates
Quite a lot of new code got piled up so without further ado here are the news. (You can get all new releases from the download page) SimpleStorage This a new major release (1.7.3) of SimpleStorage. And sadly also a breaking one. At least if you were writing your own filters and adapters. There was [...]
TValue and other “Variants” like implementation tests
The recent post from Mason Wheeler about TValue speed was very interesting. I always had the impression, that variants were slow, but never tested that. So this was a surprise to me. But how fast the variants really are? There are other “variants” like implementations out there, so I decided to test them in a [...]
Build your XML the LinqToXML style in native code – Part I.
A lot of you probably already know SimpleStorage. For those who don’t: http://www.cromis.net/blog/2008/07/simple-xml-based-storage/ http://www.cromis.net/blog/2008/07/simple-xml-based-storage-part-ii/ http://www.cromis.net/blog/2009/07/simple-xml-based-storage-part-iii/ http://www.cromis.net/blog/2010/02/what-is-new-in-simplestorage/ I read a blog entry recently about LinqToXML and while I was exploring the possibilities that it has, I wondered. Can something like this be done with Delphi and native code? Now SimpleStorage already enables you to write XML [...]
