24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today

Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by Svip on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:06AM (#19169733)

You are correct, saying 'large portion of the library' was a mistake. But as I remember, you don't have access to the VCL source code with the Community Edition. The feature matrix says that this is 'limited in Community', whatever that means.

We wanted to do MongoDB connections, which comes with FireDAC. But that's only available in the Enterprise Edition. So we ended up rewriting TMongoWire[0] to fit our needs.

I am sure you can do most things in Delphi in the Community edition, but it's a little too late, unfortunately.

[0] https://github.com/stijnsanders/TMongoWire

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by marcocantu on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:21AM (#19169790)

You are right about MongoDB... as for "VCL source code" it is available, but with licensing limitations

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by wila on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:39AM (#19170072)

Oh FireDAC is no longer available for Professional version either? Geez.. really not going to lay down $3k for an EE.

How is that "professional" if you cannot even read/write to sqlite.

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by TheJimMcKeeth on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:49PM (#19172990)

Both Professional and Community Edition include FireDAC.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions

"Build database apps with local/embedded connectivity" is in every edition.

The only difference is you need Enterprise or Architect to connect to "Enterprise class" databases like a remote Oracle server.

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by nenadst on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:46PM (#19174551)

unfortunately "Enterprise DBs" means also Postgresql, Mysql, SQL Server etc. (anything Client/Server)

you can probably just use another Framework like (free) ZeosDB (http://zeoslib.sourceforge.net/)

or some paid ones e.g. from Devart (https://www.devart.com/dac.html)

but still, its frustrating to have to use something else for such basic functionality ...

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by wila on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:27PM (#19174409)

Ah ok, it doesn't mention FireDAC, fair enough. At least you can save data in a database.

Thanks for the correction.

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by wila on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:42AM (#19171759)

@fmxexpress thanks for the info. That's exactly what I am doing now, but I am not on the latest version.

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by fmxexpress on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:51AM (#19170879)

This is incorrect. I have Pro. I use FireDAC. SQLite can be used with Pro.

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