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We are very pleased to announce fresh updates to our academic software offerings! Understanding the unique needs of the academic community, we have upgraded academic versions of our software to the latest releases. These updates are...

The TaskDialog API was introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system as a more user-friendly way to give notifications to users. Where a MessageBox() only has a caption, text, icon and buttons, the task dialog introduced additional expa...

Holger Flick, TMS Evangelist & Embarcadero MVP has recently made a lot of useful videos: tips and tricks for TMS VCL components, new release announcements, events announcements... Recently he recorded a new series of videos for VCL TaskDialog. This...

Introduction In article 5, we've introduced the basic API to use the new Vista TaskDialog from Delphi. The basic API however only allows to do marginally more than the good old MessageBox. To get more out of the new TaskDialog, Vista exposes the ...

Introduction Windows Vista introduces a new dialog to communicate with the user, called TaskDialog. In its most simple form, a TaskDialog is just a nicer looking MessageBox equivalent with options to customize the title and to add a description an...