Safe event hooking and unhooking (for Delphi IDE plugins)

In the comments to my Google+ post announcing my blog post on Hacking the Delphi 10 Project Options dialog Ondrej Kelle said: If two or more plugins hijack the same global event handler then they must restore the previous (from their point of view) handler in reverse order, however this is not guaranteed and therefore … Continue reading Safe event hooking and unhooking (for Delphi IDE plugins)

How to disable update checking in TortoiseSVN?

The latest 1.9.x versions of TortoiseSVN no longer support Windows XP (1.8.12 was the last one that did). Since some of the computers I work with are stuck with XP there isn't much sense in having it check for updates automatically. Older versions of TortoiseSVN used to have a check box on the settings "General" … Continue reading How to disable update checking in TortoiseSVN?