Author: Marina Novikova

Devrace writes: Devrace announces the release of BlazeTop v.1.8.0.144. It includes four bug fixes and five changes, in particular, a debugger of stored procedures and triggers. Besides BlazeTop v.1.8.0.144 is better compatible with Firebird 2.1.

Devrace FIBPlus version 6.7 is available for download. Now it supports Delphi 2007 and InterBase 2007. Besides FIBPlus 6.7 enables you to select a generator from the generator list in the dataset repository, to separately set the connection port in the TpFIBDatabase editor (only for Firebird); supports charset SUPPORT_KOI8_CHARSET; etc. In general it includes 7 enhancements as well as 14 bug fixes.

Versions for С++ Builder and Kylix will be available as well in the nearest time.

We would also like to remind you that all FIBPlus customers can purchase FIBPlus updates with 30-50% discounts (please contact our online support system to get them). If the year after purchase is not over yet, you can upgrade to version 6.7 for free.

What’s FIBPlus?

FIBPlus is a fast, flexible and high-performance component library for Delphi, C++ Builder and Kylix intended for work with InterBase and Firebird using Direct InterBase API. For more details please check www.devrace.com/en/fibplus.

Devrace announces the availability of CleverFilter 2.1. The newest version supports CodeGear Delphi, C++ Builder 2007 and NexusDB.

We would also like to remind you that all CleverFilter customers can purchase CleverFilter updates with 30-50% discounts (please contact our online support system to get them). If the year after purchase is not over yet, you can upgrade to version 2.1 for free!

What’s CleverFilter?

CleverFilter is a visual data filter for Delphi and C++ Builder. It supports Delphi 6-7, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, C++ Builder 6 and C++ Builder 2007 and includes adapters for FIBPlus, ADO, BDE, IBX, dbExpress, NexusDB and ODAC.

End users of your applications are often likely to have some tool for extra data handling. They want some simple and easy-to-use user filter and they’d like to control data sorting. Building CleverFilter in your applications you will enable them to control the data.

CleverFitler helps you to set extra conditions for ready queries. Users won’t waste time studying the internal database structure, and you only need to set some fields in design-time, which will be seen in the user filter

CleverFilter is a native component set and its evaluation versions are distributed partially in sources. Registering CleverFilter you get full sources of components and technical support.

FIBPlus Developers Guide Part II is available for download now. From it you will know about:

• Working with BLOB fields

• Using unique FIBPlus field types

• Working with array fields

• Using TDataSetsContainer containers

• Additional actions for TpFIBUpdateObject data modifying

• Working with shared transactions

• Batch processing

• Centralized error handling – TpFIBErrorHandler

• Getting TFIBSibEventAlerter events

• Debugging FIBPlus applications

• Monitoring SQL queries

• FIBPlus repositories

• Supporting Firebird 2.0

• Additional FIBPlus features (Full UNICODE_FSS support, NO_GUI compilation option, Using
  SynEdit in editors)

• Unique design-time experts: FIBPlusTools

• How to work with services

• Getting server information

• Managing server users

• Backing up and restoring databases

• Getting statistics about databases

If you want to know how to handle database errors with FIBPlus, read a new article in FIBPlus technology section . The article “FIBPlus: handling database errors” tells about:

• Preparation for error handling

• TpFIBErrorHandler properties and features

• Handling exceptions

and demonstrates Delphi and C++ Builder code samples.

BlazeTop (former SQLHammer) version 1.7.0.99 is available for download.
What’s new in version 1.7.0.99?
Purchase BlazeTop (129 Euros for Single license):

I am happy to inform that FIBPlus 6.5 (trial) is available for download.

As I have already announced, version 6.5 in particular has a better support of Firebird 2.0.

Purchase FIBPlus for 235 Euros only.