Do you create services with Delphi? Then maybe you are also annoyed at the time consuming way of starting, restarting, killing and attaching to the service process application every time. Well, there is remedy. You don’t need to do this. Instead run Delphi as a SYSTEM application and do some minor adaptions to the service [...]

I’m going to attend the Delphi Days in Günzburg (Where the hell is Günzburg?) this year. I’ll be there the whole day (14th June 2008) Maybe we’ll see eachother. I look forward to seeing you. Regards, Christian Wimmer

The following topics you can choose to research. Each topic has several possible options you can work on. The options are Library: Creating Windows headers for JEDI Windows API or (wrapper) classes for JEDI Windows Security Blogpost: Writing a blog post about the topic. Example: Writing an example about the topic that demonstrates using the [...]

Recently I needed to convert a C header file to Delphi which contained bitfields. Let’s take a look at a sample structure that contains bitfields: typedef struct _BITFIELDSTRUCTURE {     DWORD dwValue1;     ULONG BitValue1: 1;     ULONG BitValue2: 1;     ULONG BitValue3: 1;     ULONG BitValue4: 1; } BITFIELDSTRUCTURE, [...]

“Have you ever seen the rain (on your background image through a Delphi window)?” Ok, sorry to all the Creedence Clearwater Revival fans out there . Today we wanna talk about how to achieve translucent Delphi windows with Windows Vista. I know this does not sound like a big deal for all the lucky owners [...]