The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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There is so much swirling in my mind as I endeavor to write this article. I will try to keep the content relevant, true to real life experience and entertaining all at the same time. The title of this article tells the story! First allow me to clearly identify what is NOT intended:
Not Intended:
- Agile [...]

This is a quick reference post to help anyone having problems working with Borland’s / Codegear’s TActiveForm and Synchronizing TThread’s with the VCL’s main thread (as is required for UI type code changes). After experiencing very strange behaviour for months I came across: this link which explains the problem, when it was introduced, and how [...]

As I approach the end of a project that involves packaging an application within an ActiveX container, I thought it would be helpful to share some of the odd discoveries that I have experienced. Some of these will be documented on MSDN and some will be documented no-where! I searched endlessly to find out why [...]