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I've completed a new release of DDService Application Framework from the late Arno Garrels, it now supports Delphi 5, 7 and 2006 to XE8, 10 Seattle, 10.1 Berlin, 10.2 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio, as well as C++ Builder 2006 to XE5. Note that bugs fixed in these new releases had already been done in DDService. Also added new unit to control, install and remove Windows Service applications. The new and old versions may be downloaded from https://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/ddservice.asp or from an SVN repository at: http://svn.magsys.co.uk:8443/svn/ddservice/ , use username = ics and password = ics for read access. Angus

Project reached somewhat usable state. Check it here. SChannel is Windows built-in implementation of TLS protocols. This allows supporting secure connections without any external library. Repo contains: unit with transport-agnostic helper functions for easy implementation of TLS communication by means of Windows SChannel. sample of transport-agnostic synchronous TLS handshake using callback functions for real communication API declarations borrowed from JEDI project ICS TWSocket descendant that performs TLS communication demo project for performing any textual (mainly HTTPS) requests via secure connection Note. I first started learning what TLS is a couple of weeks ago :) So units contain only a necessary minimum to interact with TLS server. Certs and other advanced stuff are in TODO. Thanks to author of TLS-Sample from http://www.coastrd.com/c-schannel-smtp and JEDI for WinAPI headers.

Retrieving the results, memory management, zero based strings...

DUnit for Delphi, fpcunit for FPC, one source code for the tests as they are largely compatible, you only need to conditionally compile with the right uses clause. There's an example of that in chakracore-delphi.

We use our Open Source https://github.com/synopse/mORMot/blob/master/SynTests.pas unit. It is cross-platform and cross-compiler (FPC and Delphi). But it is mostly about server-side process and Win32/Win64 for Delphi. It is cross-platform (Win, BSD, Linux, i386/x86-64/arm32/aarch64) for FPC.

The List Separator is expected to be 1 character, but is documented to allow up to 3 characters: Doubtful, but the API is probably intended to handle MBCS characters, which I would expect the API to convert into proper UTF-16 characters when queried (and hopefully they fall into the U+0000..U+FFFF range so they fit into a single Char in Delphi 2009+).

Hi... In Delphi is debugging easier... You set breakpoints in the editor. The debugger holds at this line. The debugger shows variables or a complete object in a hint. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqs27gB7Zms

FWIW in Delphi that fear is often caused by the fact that new features often don't work for years and are poorly designed so they affect some important aspects negatively such as compile speed or runtime performance which often you encounter way later when you already extensively use them (latest example: inline variables). Many other languages have a plethora of incredibly smart people designing things for years with enough time to thoroughly test and ensure they are zero or minimal overhead.

Is there an IDE addin to automatically change for example this: var I: Integer; into this: var I: System.Integer;