Comments on: Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #61

By: Fabricio

Fabricio — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:21:52 +0000

Nick,

What’s happened to http://homepages.codegear.com??

It’s simply does not load (i tried the domain index, jvcl homepage, and some others).

It’s just me or there is a problem?

By: Peter J.

Peter J. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:46:49 +0000

FYI CodeGear: the "Check for Updates" on the Start menu is telling me no updates are available.

By: Dmitriy Nagirnyak

Dmitriy Nagirnyak — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:30:12 +0000

That’s exciting thing about MS MVC and Delphi.
But still the power of ASP.NET MVC could not be used with Delphi just because of it doesn’t support lots of .NET 3.5 features (such as extension methods and lamdas).
I doubt it is possible to use MVC Contrib (which is a "must").

As an example, How is it possible to write this basic (in C# & .NET 3.5) code in Delphi?
Html.ActionLink("Search Drinks", s=>s.Results("Juice", 2))

Sample from (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/03/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing.aspx)

And it seems like Castle MonoRail should be much more suitable for using with Delphi until it will start supporting .NET 3.5 features.

Anyway, it’s a good start and I believe Delphi will catch up the missing stuff soon.

By: Nick Hodges

Nick Hodges — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:58 +0000

"SoulIntruder" –

It’s the same help update that comes "over the wire". Some people like to download it themselves instead of using the Automatic Update mechanism.

Nick

By: SoulIntruder

SoulIntruder — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:10:06 +0000

Is this a "December Help Update" or something new?

By: Chris M

Chris M — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:59:32 +0000

Just to clarify, is this the same Help update that was available in February from ‘Check for Updates’?

By: Fernando Madruga

Fernando Madruga — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:24:50 +0000

1) I haven’t downloaded the Help Update yet but thanks for keeping the updates flowing, even if they are huge downloads…

2) As for the CBS Classics, either they took the movies down due to high bandwidth usage, or, most likely, they have some IP filtering in place… All I get, no matter what episode I try, is a lousy quality sound saying "this content is currently unavailable"… I’m from Portugal but they don’t say, at least visibly, that it’s available only in the USA… And I e-mailed the link to a few friends before even trying it out! Duh!

By: Vitaliy

Vitaliy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:39:08 +0000

Today help quality and size is about 1/4-1/3 of required.
I still insist on making public Wiki from current help with ability to edit topics of everyone and ability download all Wiki contents as chm help file at any moment (with automatic conversion).
This approach is cheap, cool, and make you some free marketing.

By: C Johnson

C Johnson — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:42:40 +0000

Yea, more help updates!