Felix Colibri's Delphi Blog

The Delphi INDUC A virus anatomy

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:51:01 -0500

The Delphi INDUC A virus anatomy : presentation of the INDUC A virus which spreads by compiling Delphi programs. The technique, the source code, the evaluation of the threat. How to prevent, detect and remove the virus

Cooking the Code

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:51:01 -0500

Cooking the Code : a source code filtering utility which removes unwanted rows, selected code blocs and single or multi-line comments. Complete with Unit Test (snapshot below).

.HTML Help Viewer

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:51:01 -0500

Treeview .HTML Help Viewer : the use of a Treeview along with a WebBrowser to display .HTML files alows both structuring and ordering of the help topics. This tool was used to browse the Delphi PRISM Wiki help.

MyUtf Unit Test Framework

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:51:01 -0500

MyUtf : Unit Test Framework : the MyUtf framework has a very simple structure (two lists), while still keeping all the traditional Unit Test functionality. A starting point for getting into Unit Test, understanding the underlying architecture, or as a seed for improving or transforming the tool for any non-invasive part of project monitoring.

Gnostice CodeRage III Reference

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:51:01 -0500

Gnostice mentioned our <%rave_pdf_intraweb>Rave Reports, PDF and Intraweb article during their CodeRage III conference. Thanks you, Girish Patil. And if you have to handle some .PDF file, don't forget to look at Gnostice PDF Tools

Rave Reports CodeRage III presentation

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:51:01 -0500

Download our Introduction do Rave Reports : architecture, the first tDataSet report, page inheritance and modular reports, column header and footer with totals, master detail reports with sub totals, .PDF output with Rave and downloading .PDFs using VCL for the Web (IntraWeb).

Why Generics Constraints ?

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:51:01 -0500

are generics constraints absolutely necessary to compile generic source code into binary code ? In short flexibility vs security.

The Turbo Pascal Story

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:51:01 -0500

the insider story about the creation of Turbo Pascal

Rave Reports Training

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:51:01 -0500

2 day in depth hands-on Rave Reports training course : architecture, tabular and single record by page tDataSet report, visual inheritance and modular reports, header, footer with totals, master detail reports, handling events, chaining pages, propagating computations, Delphi code reports, managing the output from Delphi, .PDF or .HTML outputs, downloading .PDFs using VCL for the Web (IntraWeb)

Rave Reports CodeRage III presentation

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:51:01 -0500

Rave Reports CodeRage III presentation - I will present an introduction do Rave Reports : architecture, the first tDataSet report, page inheritance and modular reports, column header and footer with totals, master detail reports with sub totals, .PDF output with Rave and downloading .PDFs using VCL for the Web (IntraWeb). Scheduled Monday, December 1, 2008 at 3:15pm, PST.

Updated Delphi Source Code download list

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:51:01 -0500

we updated the Delphi Source Code download page. Currently, 61 articles and 164 .ZIP files. This list is now synched (automatically generated) with the publication of each new article

Embarcadero ER/Studio Tutorial Update

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:51:01 -0500

update of the ER/Studio tutorial, the Entity RelationShip designer from Embarcadero : how to create a new model, reverse engineer a database, create sub-models, generate reports, import metadata, switch to Dimensional Model

Embarcadero ER/Studio and Delphi

Fri, 9 May 2008 18:51:01 -0500

a quick tour of ER/Studio, an Entity RelationShip designer from Embarcadero, the company which just purchased Delphi. A simple way to better know our new parent company. Presents how to create a new model, reverse engineer a database, create sub-models, generate reports

Custom Delphi Training

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:51:01 -0500

custom tailored trainings to master or upgrade towards Client Server, Multi Tier, dbExpress, Ado or IbExpress access components, Delphi object oriented programming, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Internet development

Bayesian Spam Filter

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:51:01 -0500

presentation of the algorithm and implementation of a spam elimination tool which uses Bayesian Filtering techniques which adapts filtering to your mail profile. A hope in the fight against unsollicited e-mails

Delphi Generics Tutorial

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:51:01 -0500

Delphi Generics Tutorial : using Generics (parameterized types) in Delphi : the type parameter and the type argument, application of generics to CLASSes, RECORDs, ARRAYs, procedural types, PROCEDURE OF OBJECT, methods, INTERFACEs. Constraints on INTERFACEs or CONSTRUCTORs. 12 complete examples.

Turned down for Ekon Spring Generics presentation

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:51:01 -0500

End of January, I offered to present the Genercis at the Ekon-Spring conference which was scheduled end of February. I surely was later than the "Call For Paper" deadline, but I naively assumed that when a product has 4 major innovations (dbx4, Blackfish, Asp.Net 20 and the Generics), it would not be too difficult to add an hour to the schedule, which as far as I know did not include any Generics presentation. Well, I was badly wrong. So maybe next time, I'll try to be within deadlines, and they might consider my offer. Meanwhile, since I still believe that Generics are a very important topic for Delphi developers, I took some of the examples I had prepared, and changed the slides into <%delphi_generics_tutorial>an article on this site.

Rave, .PDF and Intraweb

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:51:01 -0500

how to create PDF reports using Rave, and how to have an Intraweb site generate and display .PDF pages, with multi-user access

Rad Sudio 2007 Databases Training

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:51:01 -0500

Using the new Rad Studio databases: the Dbx4 layer- the BlackFisk Sql engine, the DbExpress access components, Ado.Net Provider components - Reporting and .Xml handling

Rad Studio Dephi Technical Resources

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:51:01 -0500

a list of Rad Studio 2007 programmer's resources : videos, in-depth articles with sources, manuals, demonstration programs, trainings

Asp.Net 2.0 Security: Users, Roles and Profiles

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:51:01 -0500

Asp.Net 2.0 offers a vaslty improved support for handling security: new Login Controls, and services for managing Users, grouping Users in Roles, and storing User preferences in Profiles

Delphi Asp.Net 2.0 and Ado.Net 2.0

Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:51:01 -0500

displaying and writing InterBase and Blackfish Sql data using Dbx4, Ado.Net Db and AdoDbxClient. Automatic databinding of ListBox and the new Asp.Net 2.0 GridView, with DataSource components

Asp.Net 2.0 Master Pages

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:51:01 -0500

the new Asp.Net 2.0 version allows us to define the page structure in a hierarchical way, with Master Pages and Content Pages, which use page inheritance, very similar to Form inheritance ...

Intraweb linked our Architecture Article

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:51:01 -0500

our <%intraweb_architecture>Intraweb Architecture aricle has been included in their Intraweb English Article List. Thanks for this link.

Writing a Shockwave Flash Player

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:51:01 -0500

build your own ShockWave Flash movie Player, with pause, custom back and forward steps, snapshots, resizing. Designed for analyzing .SWF demos.

BlackfisSql Database Engine Demos uploads

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:51:01 -0500

The 10 demo sources of the new BlackfishSql standalone database engine of RAD Studio 2007 article have been uploaded

AJAX Tutorial

Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:51:01 -0500

writing an AJAX web application. How AJAX works, using a JavaScript DOM parser, the Indy Web Server, requesting .XML data packets - Writing an integrated development project

BlackfisSql Database Engine

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:51:01 -0500

Blackfish Sql : using the new BlackfishSql standalone database engine of RAD Studio 2007 (Win32 and .Net) : create the database, create / fill / read Tables, use Pascal User Defined Functions and Stored Procedures

RAD Studio 2007 dbExpress 4 programming Demos

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:51:01 -0500

dbx4 source code demos uploaded : for the dbExpress 4 framework for RAD Studio 2007 article (the configuration files, how to connect, read and write data, using tracing and pooling delegates and metadata handling)

RAD Studio 2007 dbExpress 4 programming

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:51:01 -0500

dbx4 programming : the new dbExpress 4 framework for RAD Studio 2007 : the configuration files, how to connect, read and write data, using tracing and pooling delegates and metadata handling

CapableObjects: Lightning Fast Reaction

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:51:01 -0500

After uploading our <%eco_tutorial>ECO III Tutorial, we contacted Jesper HOGSTROM to tell him about it. Well, it took them less than 2 days to get it referenced in their ECO Tutorials links page.

The Intraweb Architecture

Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:01:01 -0500

The Intraweb Architecture : the architecture of the Intraweb web site building tool. Explains how this Delphi "rad html generator" works, and presents the CLASS organization (the class list and the main UML Class diagrams )

The Alsacian Notation

Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:01:01 -0500

the Alsacian Notation : using identifier prefixes like k_constant, t_type, g_global, l_local, p_parameter. Presentation, rationale and benefits.

ECO III Tutorial - Delphi 2006

Thu, 10 May 2007 10:01:01 -0500

ECO Tutorial : Writing a simple ECO application : the UML model, the in memory objects and the GUI presentation with DataGrids. We also will show how to evaluate OCL expressions using the EcoHandles, and persist the data on disc

Delphi Web Designer

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:01:01 -0500

A tiny Delphi "RAD Web Designer", which explains how the Delphi IDE can be used to generate .HTML pages using the Palette / Object Inspector / Form metaphor to layout the page content

DLL and Process Viewer

Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:01:01 -0500

DLL and Process Viewer: Analyze and display the list of running processes, with their associated DLLs and Memory mapped files (Process Walker)

Virtual Constructors, Class References and dynamic Packages

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:01:01 -0500

VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTORS together with CLASS references and dynamic Packages allow the separation between a main project and modules compiled and linked in later. The starting point for Application Frameworks and Plugins and is

Using InterBase / FireBird System Tables

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:01:01 -0500

Description of the main Tables, with their relationship and presents examples of how to extract information from the schema

.EXE and .DLL PE Explorer

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:01:01 -0500

Presents and analyzes the content of .EXE and .DLL files. The starting point for extracting resources, spying .DLL function calls or injecting additional functionalities

Interbase Stored Procedure Grammar

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:01:01 -0500

The Ib Stored Proc BNF Grammar. Can be used to build stored procedure utilities, like pretty printers, renaming tools, Sql Engine conversion or ports and

Component To Code

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:01:01 -0500

Generate the component creation and initialization code by analyzing the .DFM. Handy to run new library demos without installing components on the Palette

Delphi Asp.Net Portal Programming

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:01:01 -0500

Presentation, architecture and programming of the Delphi Asp Net Portal. This is a Delphi version of the Microsoft ASP.NET Starter Kit Web Portal showcase. With Delphi source code, detailed schemas, step by step presentation, sql scripts

Indy Threaded NewsReader

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:01:01 -0500

A NewsReader which presents the articles sorted by thread and in a logical hierarchical way. This is the basic Indy newsreader demo plus the tree organization of messages

Build NNTP News Message Trees

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:01:01 -0500

how to build a tree of the NNTP News Messages. The downloaded messages are displayed in a tListBox by message thread (topic), and for each thread, the messages are presented in a tTreeView

Delphi RSS Reader

Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:01:01 -0500

The RSS Reader lets you download and view the content of an .RSS feed (the entry point into somebody's blog) in a tMemo or a tTreeView. You can enter a list of URLS, and clicking on one of them will donwload the .RSS, analyze it and display it. Comes complete with an .HTML downloader and an .XML parser. We used this tool while we were creating this blog, in order to look at the entries of fellow Delphi developers, and, by adding the .HTML rendering capabilities, the project can be turned into a full blown blog reader. The attached .ZIP contains, as usual, all the sources, as well as an initial Delphi Blog urls, and a sample .RSS file

Turbo Delphi Interbase tutorial

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:01:01 -0500

Develop database applications with Turbo Delphi and Interbase. Complete ADO Net architecture, and full projects to create the database, the Tables, fill the rows, display and update the values with DataGrids. Uses the BDP

ADO .Net Tutorial

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:01:01 -0500

A complete Ado Net architectural presentation, and projects for creating the Database, creating Tables, adding, deleting and updating rows, displaying the data in controls and DataGrids, using in memory DataSets, handling Views, updating the Tables with a DataGrid

BDP Ado.Net Blobs with Turbo Delphi

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:01:01 -0500

reading and writing Blob fields with the BDP. Display in a TextBox and synchronising with a DataGrid

Delphi 2006 for .NET training classes

Fri, 5 May 2006 10:01:01 -0500

Dedicated to Windows Forms and Web Form classes (not Win32 nor VCL.NET), with special emphasis on ADO.NET database management, and the development of ASP.NET applications

Asp.Net Viewstate Viewer

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:01:01 -0500

An ASP.NET utility displaying the content of the viewtate field which carries the request state between Internet Explorer and the IIS / CASSINI Servers

CASSINI SPY

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:01:01 -0500

an ASP.NET utility displaying the content of the packets flowing between Internet Explorer and CASSINI

Asp.Net Log File

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:01:01 -0500

A logging CLASS allowing to monitor the Asp.Net events, mainly used for undesrtanding, debugging and journaling Asp.Net Web applications

the pl0 grammar

Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:01:01 -0500

The BNF Grammar of Pl0 (a tiny pascal-like language)

the pascal S grammar

Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:01:01 -0500

the BNF grammar of the Pascal-S language (Pascal without the pointers, the files, the sets)

the Pascal grammar

Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:01:01 -0500

The standard Pascal BNF grammar

the Delphi 5 Grammar

Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:01:01 -0500

the BNF grammar used for parsing the Delphi 5 VCL

Oracle Links

Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A collection of Oracle Links, including pages with papers, presentations, code, scripts, tools, about programing techniques (transactions, sequence, monitoring etc).

Interbase Links

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A collection of Interbase / Firebird pages with papers, presentations, code, scripts, tools, about programming techniques (transactions, generators etc)

Delphi Web Spider

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:01:01 -0500

a Web Spider allowing to download all pages from a site, with custom or GUI filtering and selection.

Web Downloader

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:01:01 -0500

An HTTP tool enabling to save on a local folder an HTML page with its associated images (.GIF, .JPEG, .PNG or other) for archieving or later off-line reading

Find Memo

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A tMemo with "find first", "find next", "sort", "save" capabilities

Delphi 3D Designer

Sat, 28 May 2005 10:01:01 -0500

build a 3d volume list, display it in perspective and move the camera, the screen or the volumes with the mouse.

Whois

Tue, 24 May 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A Whois Client who requests information about owners of IP adresses. Works in batch mode.

CGI Database Browser

Tue, 24 May 2005 10:01:01 -0500

CGI extension which allow display and modification a of a Table using a Web Browser in a grid like fashion

Simple CGI Web Server

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A simple CGI Web Server which handles HTML

Simple Web Server

Fri, 13 May 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A simple HTTP web Server and the corresponding HTTP web Browser, using our Client Server Socket library

The Delphi Socket architecture

Wed, 11 May 2005 10:01:01 -0500

The organization of the ScktComp CLASSes, with UML diagrams, and a simple Client Server file transfer example using tClientSocket and tServerSocket

Socket Programming

Tue, 3 May 2005 10:01:01 -0500

The simplest Client Server example of TCP / IP communication using Windows Sockets with Delphi

Stdin_StdOut

Fri, 6 May 2005 10:01:01 -0500

Send and receive strings from a GUI application to a CONSOLE application calling Readln and Writeln. Necessary for building CGI web servers.

windows_environment

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:01:01 -0500

read and write Windows Environment strings. Used in CGI script programs

1001 Delphi Links

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:01:01 -0500

Our list of Delphi links, sorted by category (database, XML, TCP/IP, scientific, multi-media, socket, reporting, accounting, jobs etc.), manually checked and mainly focusing on Delphi source code.

Database Reverse Engineering

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:01:01 -0500

Extracts the Database schema from an application's .DFMs

SQL Parser

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A simple Parser for a subset of Interbase SQL instructions (SELECT, INSERT and UPDATE)

SQL to HTML

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:01:01 -0500

Conversion of an ASCII SQL request in HTML format

.Dfm binary to Txt converter

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:01:01 -0500

convert all the .DFM in binary format to their ASCII format

A .DFM Parser

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:01:01 -0500

This utility parses the Delphi .DFM file, building a tree representation, which is the first step for transforming the content of a tForm

The ColiGet Full Text Searcher

Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:01:01 -0500

A nice utility allowing to find all the files in a directory satisfyig a search request

Abstract Factory and Bridge Design Patterns

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:01:01 -0500

Delphi version of the Abstract Factory and Bridge patterns, as used in our Lexi Document Editor. Presentation of the patterns, with UML diagrams and full downloadable source code.

The DCCIL .BAT Generator

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:01:01 -0500

This tool generates a .BAT which can be used to compile your project with the DCCIL command line compiler. All relevant parameters are extracted from the .BDSOPT configuration file

The Delphi for .Net .BDSPROJ file

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:01:01 -0500

In this first part, we present the content of the .BDSPROJ configuration file for Delphi 7, Delphi 8 and Delphi 2005. The file is analyzed with a small Delphi .XML parser

The 23 Gof design patterns

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:01:01 -0500

The delphi code of the 23 samples from the book "Design Patterns" by Erich GAMMA, Richard HELM, Ralph JOHNSON et John VLISSIDES. Each pattern is in a separate .ZIP with complete source code.

The Lexi Editor

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:01:01 -0500

Delphi version of the Lexi Document Editor. A complete implementation of the mythical Design Pattern case study, with presentation, diagrams and source of Composite, Decorator, Iterator, Strategy, Visitor and Command, with full source code.

Sniffing Interbase Traffic

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:01:01 -0500

Using the previous tool, we compare the BDE and IbExpress traffic. The project builds the base and the test table, then the project simply uses the sniffing views to get both statistics and detailed packet content. To our surprise, the BDE wins heads down, because of a 30K overhead imported by Interbase Express.

TCP IP Sniffer

Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:01:01 -0500

A Delphi tool allowing you to analyze the content of all packets travelling on your network