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2 hours ago, Uwe Raabe said:

I guess everyone has got that now.

Sorry about beating a old dead dog.

I'm just royalty pissed off at the "AMENSTY" pricing.  I really thought it was going to be $999 to with the idea you'll continue to pay that every year.  If they'd forgive my missing years and let me restart at the renewal pricing, I would continue to purchase it every year.  I'm just waiting for them to give me that chance to jump back on that bandwagon.  I really thought it was the "AMENSTY", but that hope was lost.

If they want me to restart at $4000 or even $2599, well.  I'll just continue to use Delphi 11.0 or 10.4.  At least I still have access to all the previous versions, due to their license agreement.  I'm curious to which version had the least amount of bugs... Hint hint.

On 6/3/2024 at 10:55 PM, Lajos Juhász said:

 

As any other company they need income to pay their bills,vages and profit to shareholders.

 

 

 

With Visual Studio's perpetual license, you typically receive service packs and minor updates for the specific version you purchased. This includes bug fixes and security patches, ensuring the version remains stable and secure even without upgrading to a newer major version.

Microsoft needs to pay bills too, yet they can continue to support the whole version you bought with bug fixes and security patches!

EDIT:

However, there's no financial penalty for missing years when you purchase a renewal license with Visual Studio, other than the need to catch up with any new pricing if it has increased.

With Delphi, there's a accumulation of stacking increase per year until you need to buy a new license at regular price.

2 hours ago, Lajos Juhász said:

 

As any other company they need income to pay their bills,vages and profit to shareholders. To make the product more modular for some reason did not worked out for them. They have tried with the database add-on.

 

 

While that would be good for us. This would be increase the price. It is not always easy to backport bug fixes due to interface changes in the source code. Embarcadero still not able to test a single release good enough to release the new versions withous some serious bugs (eg. most of the customers will not release any program compiled with 0 version). 

 

The company I am working for has a similair policy. A client can pay to get a change to be backported to his version only if that doesn't require too much code to change and we can test the product integrity after the change, otherwise the change can be delivered with a version upgrade.

So, your basically saying the version of Delphi Enterprise I should really be using is version 10.4?

12 hours ago, Lajos Juhász said:

Embarcadero made a bad decision to support more and more platforms without proper preparation. Now we have to pay the price that they have to replace everything as it is impossible to support those changing platforms.

 

Combine that with the fact that the 32 bit compiler has also an ancient architecture that should be replaced.

 

Too bad they don't let you buy just what you need.  If you just prefer to create Android and Windows, you should be allowed to buy just those two as add-ons.  If you want Linux, then buy it as a addon.  If iOS apps, or Mac OS apps..etc.

On 6/1/2024 at 4:25 PM, bazzer747 said:

 

My biggest gripe, though, is that whilst I have Enterprise (that was a 'con' years ago getting a decent price for an upgrade) when I only needed Professional), now I'm stuck with Enterprise because I can't get Firedac with Professional.

I bought Enterprise to access the Linux stuff.  I really don't need to stay Enterprise, but they kind of force you to stay Enterprise.  If you buy the next version as professional, it'll turn all your Enterprise versions into professional!  They forcibly keep you at the version that makes them more money.

On 6/1/2024 at 4:25 PM, bazzer747 said:

These 'offers' are nothing like helpful. Why they 'force' a years maintenance into the price makes me wonder - I've used Delphi (now on 10.4) since Delphi 4 - and never required a maintenance contract. Never had to call Emarcardo to help fix a problem. Why would I nee6d one now!

My biggest gripe, though, is that whilst I have Enterprise (that was a 'con' years ago getting a decent price for an upgrade) when I only needed Professional), now I'm stuck with Enterprise because I can't get Firedac with Professional.

Well, they do offer the professional version for free (kind of).  If you do go that route with a different email address, etc.  After a week or two, they'll start sending you harassment emails about you using thier product to make a certain amount of money they expect you to buy the professional version else they'll take you to court.  Seriously!

13 hours ago, bazzer747 said:

 

 Also, when I buy a product I would expect to get any bug fixes for that product free with an apology, rather than having to pay for it. 

 

 

Yes, that's correct.  Instead of allowing me to have all the bugs fixed for version 11, they want me to buy version 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, etc, for the bug fixes.  They are surely getting away with it because people are paying them.  If those whom used thier service stopped paying them, they might change the way they do business.

I was hoping to see a shining light at the end of the tunnel when I read the Amnesty deal, but it was a SCAM to get me to email them for a quote that I could get at any time of the year!  They are clearly not sorry for thier business practices.

I’m curious on your answers, cause I might just downgrade to that version. 😊

So, sitting on Delphi 11.0 Enterprise because I missed too many renewal periods, so I have to buy a new license.  $4,000 for a new license is too much.

I saw the Rad Offer for Amnesty (direct copy paste from website) which is practically a lie:

Terms and Conditions

Delphi 11.0 Enterprise (I Can't afford to buy new version.  Need workaround, please.)

PROBLEM

Delphi 11.0 crashes everytime I try to delete a TStringColumn from StringGrid in a FMX form in the IDE.  This is not during runtime.

I can't seem to figure out how to remove the ones I currently built using the IDE.  Any work arounds?

I've tried to right click on the StringGrid and select Items Editor and select a TStringColumn and click delete.... crashes Delphi 11.0 runtime.

SOLUTION

Right click on the design, then click View as Text.  Delete the objects and save unit.  close the unit and reopen the unit.  Fixed.

HISTORY in how I got Delphi Enterprise:

I am hobbyist that happened to hit a big lottery winning one year and decided to buy Delphi Enterprise 10.4 with the money, during that year I upgraded to Delphi 11.0.  So, I'm stuck with it.  I'll never be able to ever afford getting another Enterprise again.  So, I look for workarounds.

10 hours ago, SwiftExpat said:

I had to contact support, and the turn around was 1 day. In license manager you are looking for an entry "DelphiLSP".

Thank you.

I was able to get it working after I deleted my serial number and then registered it again.

15 hours ago, Dalija Prasnikar said:

Maybe someone here had similar issue, but the fastest way to get help would be to contact support like the message says.

 

You can do that through web. Make sure you choose Registration & Instalaltion https://www.embarcadero.com/support 

Thank you.

I was able to get it working after I deleted my serial number and then registered it again.

Thank y'all!

I was able to get DelphiLSP working with VScode only after I deleted my serial numbers and registered them again.

The official "DelphiLSP" Plugin for Visual Studio Code https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EmbarcaderoTechnologies.delphilsp

Every time I hover over a function, variable, procedure, etc.... I get "A valid license was not found. Please contact Embarcadero Support" .

I have Delphi 11.0 Enterprise edition with a valid license!

I'm using Visual Studio Code because it allows me to use GitHub Copilot.

Any ideas?

PS

I've tried this:

but the help does not help.  I still have "A valid license was not found. Please contact Embarcadero Support"!

Any help is much appreciated!

On 5/13/2022 at 1:53 AM, psla314 said:

If you remove the DelphiLSP.exe from Path to DelphiLSP.exe in extension setting it will fix the license error, but a "cannot start DelphiLSP" error will be displayed on project load, but it seems to work. see https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-35388

 

Adding a path tells me that it can't load DelphiLSP.exe .... I've tried

```

C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin"

C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin\

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin\"

```

But if I don't have a path, it loads DelphiLSP.exe, yet it still complains about " A valid license was not found. Please contact Embarcadero Support" .  I also have Delphi 11.0 Enterprise edition with a valid license!

Any ideas?

I'm trying to figure out if this is even possible.

It seems that GitHub Copilot only works with a select few editors.

Which external editor would work best with Delphi so that GitHub Copilot could be used?

Any ideas?

If there's no work around, maybe they'll let me get a free update?

Component -> Install Packages -> Embarcadero Designer IDE Package

I'm guessing by the version information... it has both loaded??

3 minutes ago, David Hoyle said:

I cannot remember (and I don't have RS available) but does the IDE's about dialogue not let you see what packages are loaded? The designide BPL may be being loaded regardless of a registry entry.

Do you mean RS as Rad Studio?

This is what I have... see picture:

Just now, David Hoyle said:

You need to add it to the relevant registry key.

Where does it exists for you?

3 minutes ago, David Hoyle said:

Yes, if this is in RS11.2 BUT you should have an entry for designide280.bpl. Do you?

No... designide280.bpl doesn't exist in my registry.

When I manually add it... it does not get a check mark in Component -> Install Packages

On 11/30/2022 at 11:32 AM, programmerdelphi2k said:

any way, in Registry we have it:

 

He done reference to ...

 

So... I can delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\21.0\bin\designide270.bpl  from the registry and be done with it?

ALSO...... What is Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Embarcadero\BDS\22.0\Known Packages FOR?

After looking at my files...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin

I found that designide280.bpl does not have a digital signature from Idera, Inc. !!

Although in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\21.0\bin

designide270.bpl does have a digital signature

Can someone please look in their C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin (See attached picture)

With Windows 10 Command Prompt (Administrator Access):

C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin>certUtil -hashfile designide280.bpl SHA256
SHA256 hash of designide280.bpl:
293754639af04e03242ffe719d0c3c3b7c2ad5f186fcf6c4197063b987982fda
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.

Please let me know if this file is correct for Delphi 11.0 November patch

Thank you!

....PS..... If you don't have time to compare, can you please just reply with your SHA256 ?