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News: December 2004

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Pascal Newsletter #52 Published! 21-Dec-04: Issue #52 of the Pascal Newsletter has been published. This issue has five articles to give you plenty of reading over the holiday period with topics including adding your application to Explorer's Send To menu, indexed searching, returning a class from a DLL and collision detection in games. We'd like to thank all the authors who contributed articles or prizes this year.
Pascal Newsletter: Call For Articles! 01-Dec-04: We are planning the next issue of the Pascal Newsletter for mid-December but are short of articles. If you have written a Delphi or Kylix article we might be interested in publishing please contact us. Publishing in the Pascal Newsletter is an excellent opportunity to stand out from your colleagues, add a published article to your cv, promote your website and get a chance to win a prize!

Delphi and Borland News

Delphi 2005 Update 1 Now Available 23-Dec-04: This update makes Delphi 2005 rock solid!
Public Beta: Delphi 8 Update 3 22-Dec-04: This patch is designed to correct issues with .NET versioning for Delphi 8. This is a dcu breaking change. Version calculation for dcuils and dcpils has been updated to depend on symbol names rather than values of metadata tokens imported from .NET assemblies. This fixes errors that users have been experiencing with updating their service packs for NET 1.1 and will prevent any further issues with .NET service packs.
BDNtv: New Ant features and Ant debugging in JBuilder 2005 17-Dec-04: In this episode, Jeff Wilsbacher discusses new Ant features and Ant debugging support in JBuilder 2005.
BDNtv: C++Builder in Delphi 17-Dec-04: In this quick preview, Troy Kitch shows integration of C++Builder features in Delphi 2005.
Installable Delphi 2005 Examples 17-Dec-04: Download an installation for dozens of tested Delphi 2005 examples for use directly from the IDE. These examples include the C# and Delphi languages and both the Win32 and .NET platforms with text that introduces and explains them.
BDNradio: Delphi 2005 Live Chat on Interop with Chris Bensen 16-Dec-04: In this audio replay, Chris discusses his work on ActiveX, COM, .NET interop, VLI and the New Component wizard.
BDNRadio: Log from Live Chat with Corbin Dunn on Delphi 2005 IDE Features 16-Dec-04: Read the chat room log for questions answered by Corbin on Delphi 2005 IDE features, and listen to the replay.
Delphi 2005 Architect Review 14-Dec-04: Delphi has grown up since it launched nearly ten years ago. The latest version provides support for developing Win32 and .NET applications as well as supporting the C# language. There are many enhancements to almost all areas with the main goal of increasing developer productivity.
BDNtv: Unit testing in Delphi 2005 14-Dec-04: This BDNtv episode shows the unit testing integration for DUnit for a Delphi/Win32 application in Delphi 2005. Unit testing for C#, Delphi for .NET, and Delphi for Win32 with both NUnit and DUnit are supported in Delphi 2005. Flash
BDNradio: Bob Evans Chat on JBuilder 2005 Unit Testing, XML Refactoring and More 14-Dec-04: This is a log of the live chat from November 29th 2004 on JBuilder 2005 with Bob Evans, a Borland R&D Engineer.
Open Letter to the C++Builder Community 13-Dec-04: All Borland C++Builder customers should read this open letter from Borland.
BDNRadio: Delphi 2005 IDE Chat with Allen Bauer 10-Dec-04: Allen talks about his work on the Delphi 2005 IDE in his live chat.
Delphi 2005 Fixes for QualityCentral Bug Reports 10-Dec-04: There are currently 263 QualityCentral bug reports closed with the release of Delphi 2005.
JBuilder 2005 Resolutions for QualityCentral Bug Reports 09-Dec-04: This article provides a list of the bug reports in QualityCentral that are resolved with the JBuilder 2005 release.
JBuilder 2005 Update 1 06-Dec-04: This article contains information on all the fixes in Update 1 for JBuilder 2005.
Global 2000 Companies Select Borland to Elevate Software Quality and Control 06-Dec-04: An unprecedented number of high-profile customers spanning a wide spectrum of industries and regions selected Borland CaliberRM and StarTeam in 2004 as their preferred requirements management and software configuration and change management solutions, Borland announced today. Companies that selected CaliberRM or StarTeam this year include: British Telecom, Comcast, EDS, Gap Inc, HP, Jaguar Cars Ltd., Siemens AG, Symantec and Verizon Wireless.
Namespaces in Delphi 2005 03-Dec-04: To make Delphi code friendlier towards other .NET languages Borland has changed the way Delphi 2005 produces namespaces. This article discusses the changes that have been made and how they affect you.
Runtime Flexibility and Future Proofing; GOF Behavioural Patterns with C# - Part 2 03-Dec-04: This is the fourth article in a series upon the GOF Design patterns from a C# and .Net Framework perspective. It is a continuation of the Behavioral Patterns this time looking at Iterator, Mediator, Observer and Memento (Momento) patterns.
Advanced Markup Language Generation for IntraWeb 01-Dec-04: Describes how to use an undocumented feature in IntraWeb to create complex controls that require multiple tags.