Chau Chee Yang Technical Blog

I encounter the following error while trying to compile my application in Delphi 2007 (11.0.2902.10471): F2084 Internal Error: URW5517 ...

I use Windows 7 x64 for daily Delphi development task.  If I press F9 to run my application in IDE mode, there is a great chance to hit this...

Unattended Windows XP installation will speed up the installation process without answering dialogs prompted by Windows XP installation serv...

In most case, normal Windows users seldom face unbootable windows installation as most user usually install windows in a single partition ut...

Note: Please refer to Input Director for better solution. If you have more than one machine (PC or notebook) on your desktop, you may use...

“unavailble database” error prompt connecting to Firebird service is annoying and difficult to trace.  Sometime it work and sometime it does...

Apache HTTP Server is a famous open source web server.  The default configuration file is located at “/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf” Server S...

I have been always looking for a virtual PDF printer solution.  The only solution I know is windows PDF printer driver on Internet that need...

TWebBrowser is a wrapper for Internet Explorer COM interface.  The most common way to use TWebBrowser is using Navigate method that accept a...

Introduction The BIT we talk here is the smallest unit in binary: 0 and 1. Using bit for attributes If we want to assign a set of attr...

Introduction Before VNC, we may use Xming or XWin32 to connect to a proper configured X-Windows Server.  This requires few X-Windows Ser...

Windows Vista consume much more resources than previous version of Windows.  You will get better performance and experience if you add more ...

MotherBoard BIOS get updated from time to time from vendor for the fixed.  Some unusual and performance issues happening to your OS may be B...

SDI (Single Document Interface) has been pushed by Microsoft Office years ago.  Previously, it was MDI (Multiple Document Interface) in few ...

14" and 15" monitor has became a standard desktop environment for years.  The CRT monitor became obsolete after LCD become a stand...

Delphi ship the following VCL libraries: DCU: Both debug and non-debug version DCP: non-debug version only BPL: non-debug versi...

It requires some efforts to get Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 to get running on a Vista SP1 machine with Microsoft SQL Server Express 20...

Firebird support running as service or application mode.  It always confuse me and I don't know what is the best working mode in my dail...

Background Windows Dynamic Link Library (DLL) or Delphi Runtime Package (BPL) are both shared library for Windows OS.  As stated in MSDN :...