Modernizing Object Pascal VCL Applications

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Modernizing Object Pascal VCL Applications
Marco Cantu - Embarcadero
CodeRage 9 - Object Pascal Track
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 12pm Pacific Time

Form style to task bar buttons, from parallel library integration to BDE migration, from better coding styles to RTL new features: a collection of suggestions for migrating Windows VCL applications to Windows 8 and modernizing them alongside.
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Dear Marco, I really admire that you did not have to laugh when you showed the strangely alien "fully integrated" app running in Windows10. Right in the middle of two real Windows10 apps that blue window with the strange circular system fields seemed more out of place than a dirty rug in a cleanroom. You should not have emphasized integration so much just to show that foreign object. Furthermore, a VCL application is modern simply by using the good old XP manifest. Styling always results in a foreign object - it does not create what the user wanted when he chose the style for his OS.

Furthermore, what took you so long to integrate the Win7 Taskbar features? I mean this should have been part of the first XE. Five years for that? Seriously? It is OK to boost App development, but not at the cost of neglecting the core market of desktop windows.

All in all however, I'm glad Delphi is moving along. Keep it up!

Sherlock