December 2016

CrossTalk Status Yes the project is still very much alive! We have encountered a few unexpected snags in the CrossTalk

CrossTalk Editions Features of each edition are not set in stone quite yet, but here is what we are considering

CrossTalk Newsgroup Now Available A CrossTalk newsgroup is now available. We will be publishing a public beta soon. Until then

Loading User Assemblies Here is how user assemblies are loaded and how paths are resolved. Earlier we discussed the CTP

Debugging .NET Code from Delphi You can debug .NET code even though your main program is written in Delphi. You

CrossTalk Project Files – *.ctp .ctp extension defines a CrossTalk Project file. CTP files list assemblies and classes that you

.NET DataSets CrossTalk can allow you to access .NET DataSets. Here is a DataSet with a DataTable declared in Visual

System.XML is working CrossTalk is now advanced enough that it can use XmlReader in System.XML to read XML data. procedure

Overloaded Indexed Properties Delphi cannot overload indexed properties. So CrossTalk adds suffixes to the overloads. In System.Xml.XmlReader the Items property

Enums .NET and Delphi handle enumerations quite differently. Because of this CrossTalk has to do a bit of a translation.

Today we completed object references as return values, and reference resolution. Here is some sample code expanded from before with

Sample CrossTalk Code Here is a sample of what it looks like to use CrossTalk. Source Code This is Delphi