Thursday, March 24, 2005

Very good Delphi resource

I found very good Delphi resource. Must have for Delphi developer.

Friday, March 04, 2005

On Finalizers and Destructors

I've been reading much on Finalizers and Destructors in Delphi for .NET because I wanted to understand garbage collection mechanism in depth. After reading couple of blog entries, I got confused. I used to use try...finally block in Delphi 7. I read that .NET doesn't require object to be destroyed as it uses automatic garbage collection method. I asked myself, do I still need to use try...finally method in Delphi 8? Finally, Nick's blog entry made everything clear. It says : "So, bottom line: Continue to call Free on the classes you create in your .Net applications. If there's no need for a Free call, no harm done. If there is a need for a Free call, then you've done it, and all is well. " There are some more articles which explain everything about GC or object destruction in .NET http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,29365,00.html http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2002_12/magazine/features/balena/default_pf.aspx