Mauro Venturini

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Create feature-rich windows applications with many new components and universal dialogs.

  • improved DBGrid
  • new DBRecordView, DBTreeView
  • toolbars and db dialogs to Find, Filter, Sort, Export, Print...
  • StringGrid with columns definition
  • GroupBox with automatic alignment and resizing of owned controls

And many more from $25 to $95 only - click for details!

Author Products

Total 10 products

.NET > Miscellaneous > Other

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware + source 19 Apr 2005

Description

There are a new buzzword in software: Aspects. It seems Aspects will be the next big thing after objects. Therefore, papers flocks, see for examples: Sarathy Hoffman. The Sarathy paper was stimulating but the sample used C#. As whatever you can do in C# you can do in Delphi, only better, author rewrite the sample.

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: Included
  • Exe demo: included
  • Size: 166 kB

Platforms: D2005

.NET > System > Threads

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware + source 20 Jun 2005

Description

Windows Forms applications often require some sort of asynchronous invocation option. .NET 2.0 provides the BackgroundWorker component to facilitate easy asynchronous invocation with Windows Forms. Waiting for it this is a Delphi.NET BackgroundWorker component implementation based on .NET 1.1.

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: Included
  • Exe demo: included
  • Size: 39 kB

Platforms: D2005

Applications in Delphi and BCB > Files and Drives > Other

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware 20 Oct 1999

Description

The old Windows 3.x File Manager was polite enough to ask if you really wanted to do that 1 GByte directory tree move you just happened to start with a mouse drag. Some genius (!?) at Microsoft decided that this was a useless function and removed it from the Windows Explorer of Windows 95 and NT 4.

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: None
  • Size: 287 kB

Platforms: NT4, W95, W98,

.NET > Tools > Other

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware 20 Aug 2005

Description

There are many 'screen ruler' application around. Some of them support transparency. OverRuler is so transparent that the mouse can go through it and interact with the application under it, that is OverRuler window is not a filled rectangle but a spidery set of lines superimposed to the background.

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: Included
  • Size: 115 kB

Platforms: D2005

Components > System > Threads

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware + source 24 Feb 2003

Description

The TThread.Synchronize causes a method to be executed using the main thread, thereby avoiding multi-thread conflicts (expecially on the VCL). Unfortunately it only supports parameterless methods. This unit provides techniques to extend this to methods with parameters. Any method of a thread …

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: Included
  • Size: 9 kB

Platforms: D7

.NET > Miscellaneous > Other

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware 09 Feb 2005

Description

.NET framework is nice indeed. I like it, and I am a Delphi "integralist". Unfortunately, someone in MS decided that interface name prefix ’I’ is good but class name prefix (’T’ or ’C’) it is not. This has unpleasant consequences. It decreases code clarity, e.g.

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: None
  • Size: 750 kB

Platforms: D2005

Components > Files and Drives > Log Files

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware + source 17 Aug 1999

Description

Any decent Windows NT/2000 application should use event logging. As usual Windows API are a bit intimidating but after this component there are no excuses. Just drop it and use Add method.

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: Included
  • Size: 162 kB

Platforms: D4

Components > System > Apps Communications

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware + source 05 Jan 1998

Description

This component wrap the wm_CopyData message usage. So sending and posting messages between processes becames much more easier.

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: Included
  • Exe demo: included
  • Size: 201 kB

Platforms: D2

.NET > System > Other

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware + source 02 Jun 2006

Description

When a .NET application hits an unhandled exception the default behaviour is to show a very poor dialog. Therefore, it is (or should be) common practice to hook UnhandledException event of the current AppDomain and ThreadException event of Application. Unfortunately, there are security restrictions …

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: Included
  • Size: 262 kB

Platforms: D2006

.NET Tools > Code > Code Generators

By Mauro Venturini.

Freeware 23 Sep 2005

Description

.NET XmlSerializer is a nice class: it can serialize and deserialize almost anything almost anyway, and the serialization is quite fast too. Unfortunately, no lunch is free: during the first constructor invocation for a target type XmlSerializer create and compiles a C# assembly with the …

Informations

  • Status: Fully functional
  • Source: None
  • Size: 260 kB

Platforms: D2005