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As a retired developer i'm a bit rusty (71 years) , and now i have run into a problem. I created a small windowsapplication using Delphi community edition 10.4 (i think) on Windows 10. The CCR.Exif worked perfectly. Since then i have upgraded to Windows 11 and to Delphi 11 build 3. Now when i try to compile my project i get a lot of errors on CCR.Exif files. Here it seems that the CCR.Exif is not recognised (Pic1). Then i tried to create a small application and added all CCR files to the project. This gave me the error in Pic2. I hope there might be a simple solution to this and someone can help? Please?

Hi, I'm trying to get my components, packages and units running under Delphi 10.3 Rio. Currently I'm stumbling over CCR.EXIF (latest revision 1.5.1), the set of units to read and manipulate EXIF header data and such in images. The compiler throws a E2574 in the unit CCR.Exif.IPTC.pas at this place: unit CCR.Exif.IPTC; interface uses Types, SysUtils, Classes, {$IFDEF HasGenerics}Generics.Collections, Generics.Defaults,{$ENDIF} {$IFDEF VCL}Jpeg,{$ENDIF} CCR.Exif.BaseUtils, CCR.Exif.TagIDs, CCR.Exif.TiffUtils; type TIPTCStringArray = type Types.TStringDynArray; //using 'type' means the helper defined below will only apply to it {$IFDEF XE3+} TIPTCStringArrayHelper = record helper for TIPTCStringArray class function CreateFromStrings(const Strings: TStrings): TIPTCStringArray; static; function Join(const Separator: string): string; end; {$ENDIF} In line 11 of this excerpt the compiler throws a E2574 ("Instantiated type can not be used for TYPE'd type declaration") about the use of "type" for this declaration of TIPTCStringArray, which shall extent TStringDynArray with a recordhelper. This error doesn't occur with any compiler prior to Rio. When I leave out the "type" it compiles fine. I'm not an expert on generics and such, so I'm not sure what consequences it has to just leave out the "type" (in contrary to the authors intent according to the comment). Has anyone a better idea what to do here?