Last month Sarina DuPont blogged about loading custom FireMonkey styles on a mobile device at runtime ("How to load custom styles at...
Changing FireMonkey style at runtime
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Using the new REST Client library components to connect to Web & Cloud services (Part 2)
This REST BaaS (Backend as a Service) client tutorial shows how to use the Embarcadero REST Library for accessing REST-based web services (REST...
Using iAnywhere Driver, how to fix conversion errors using dates which used to work with the old driver ?
In Aqua Data Studio 14.0.0, I checked the option "Use iAnywhere Driver" for a Sybase IQ 15+ Server property to test the Bulk Import Feature. The...
The Cheat-Sheet on SharePoint’s Distributed Cache
I was in Indiana this past weekend at SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis, and one of the presentations I delivered at the event was a favorite of...
Creating an Overflow Menu on Android
During my CodeRage 8 session I talked about creating an Action Bar with an Overflow menu, so I wanted to provide some step-by-step instructions. On...
How to load custom styles at runtime
During my session at CodeRage, I briefly talked about how to load custom styles at runtime. I wanted to elaborate on this topic and provide some...
Bridging the NoSQL, Cloud and Big Data gap with Studio 14!
With increasing adoption of NoSQL, Cloud and Big Data databases, we have released our new 14.0 version of Aqua Data Studio with full support for...
Mobile app lifecycle events handling in Delphi XE5
The lifecycle of a mobile app is more complex and different from a desktop app. On a mobile device an application runs either in the foreground or...
Are you asking about app size? (by Delphi for Android)
You're asking about app size? Not a news. Since Delphi 1 people're asking "why Windows calculator is 33 kb, while Delphi version of...
Playing Audio Clips on Android
I have been working with our R&D team on the samples and snippets for RAD Studio XE5. Our mobile snippets are designed to showcase key...
Manipulating File System Paths (Part 3)
In previous tips we illustrated how you can turn file system paths into arrays and then create new paths by changing or excluding parts of the...
Manipulating File System Paths (Part 2)
When you turn a path into an array to manipulate parts of the path, if you access path elements by fixed index numbers, then this approach will only...
Manipulating File System Paths
PowerShell lets you access multiple array elements. With the help of -split and -join, you can easily manipulate file system paths this way. To...
Writing DWORD-Values to Registry
In PowerShell 2.0, Set-ItemProperty by default always creates REG_SZ (String) values. PowerShell 3.0 is smarter. When you submit a numeric value,...
Importing Website Tables into Excel
Sometimes, you might see interesting information on websites. For example, navigating to http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html will open a...
Negating Variables
Let's assume you have a variable with a negative value, and you'd like to make it a positive value. Here's a simple way: Basically, this...
Determining Registry Value Data Type
PowerShell can read and write Registry keys and values easily, but there is no a built-in way to check the data type of a given value. To find out...
Creating Colorized Excel Output (Part 2)
In a previous tip, we illustrated how you can feed HTML data to Excel in order to create formatted Excel sheets. Today, we'll show you an easy...
Creating Readable CSV-and HTML-Output
When you convert PowerShell results to CSV or HTML output, you may have discovered that some properties don't display correctly. PowerShell...
Creating Colorized Excel Output
PowerShell can send data to Excel using CSV files easily. Here's a short script creating a list of running services and opening it in Excel...
Finding Unused Drive Letter
Here's a simple way of finding unassigned drive letters: If you just want any unused drive letter, pipe the result to Get-Random. This approach...
Using Bitwise Shift Operators
PowerShell 3.0 introduces two new operators to bitwise shift. You can use these, for example, to convert GB to MB or KB to GB: -shr 10 basically...
Preventing Debugging (Part 2)
In a previous tip we explained how you can tell PowerShell not to debug certain functions by adding a special attribute: function test {...
Adding Suggestions to PowerShell Console
Suggestions are little pieces of text that can appear next to a PowerShell error message to better explain what went wrong. Suggestions only work in...