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Given that you weren't aware of using, it seems that you may not be fluent and experienced with C++. Are you sure you are best placed to be offering critiques of the language? Certainly my experience of using local variables in C++ differs greatly from yours. It is incredibly valuable in my experience to declare local variables at the point of use and with a narrow scope.

I could re-produce that error simply by running the app and once it is completely settled, closing it. Even for that I have spend several hours and tracked problem down to specific database operation(s). I use UniDAC and suspected that their native DBF (dBase) support might be the problem. I have remarked relevant code lines and continue my development. At some point, I needed these database operations and removed their remarks. It is very strange that after that error is not each time but random. I am not getting that error anymore, now. I do know same lines are called at each time and they are doing exact same things. If it appears again, I am going to directly check these database operations though. Thanks for the help.

IOW: no, they still don't work

Detecting the Remote Desktop Services environment

We have a catch 22 here. If stuff does not work I don't use it - especially if it tries to solve a task that has already been solved years ago. So if people don't use it less people are affected by bugs and less likely it is they get fixed - however even when issues are being reported by many people it takes time to fix them and only with an upgrade you get those fixes. With a library like OTL you don't need to upgrade your entire IDE to get some bugfix. This is the fundamental flaw you have when IDE, compiler and runtime are so tightly coupled that they cannot be upgraded individually. That plus a lack of quality control.

I would prefer when PPL would be fixed and stabilized instead of not being used at all. There is a couple of functionality in Delphi that relies on PPL and that would need to be reinvented where another external library is used. The lack of manpower dedicated to this part of the RTL (and a lot of others) is a real drawback. I wish Embarcadero would allow more participation from the community or at least all the MVPs that already offered their help in these areas. Another option would be to open source the standard libraries and accept pull requests, but that seems to be only at the edge of their radar - if at all.