Category:Sample

A variety of application samples are delivered and installed with the product.

Opening the Samples

To open the directory of application samples that ship with the product, do either of the following:

• Go to C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\16.0\Samples.

• Depending on your operating system, open the Samples folder as follows:
  • On Windows 7, select Start | Programs | Embarcadero RAD Studio XE8 | Samples.
  • On the Windows 8 tiles screen, click the Search charm, enter "samples" in the Search field, and press Return. Then click the Samples folder in the results.

    Tip for Windows 8: Even easier, just type "samples" (or simply "sam") and press Return when the Windows 8 tiles window is displayed.
    (To display the tiles window, press the Windows key on the keyboard.)

Updating Your Samples

Source code for the samples is checked into a read-only Subversion repository available at

http://sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/branches/RadStudio_XE8

Three Ways to Update the Samples:

• From inside the IDE, open any sample, right-click the .exe file in the Project Manager, and select Subversion | Update | From Repository Root on the context menu.
• In Windows Explorer, if you have installed the Subversion client TortoiseSVN, right-click the Samples directory and select the Update command.
• From the SourceForge repository, download a folder by right-clicking the folder name and selecting the Save target as context menu command and pointing to the installed location of the samples (given above).

Help Pages for Application Samples

• For each documented sample, the help page gives the following information about the sample:
  • Location (the path to the Subversion location, and the file location on the local system)
  • Instructions for using the sample
  • Source files, classes defined, and Uses units (or #include units)
  • Implementation details

Looking for Older Samples?

Many older samples that are not multi-device were removed from the product at the XE7 release. You can still find these older samples in the XE6 docwiki and in the XE6 SourceForge repository.

For a list of removed samples, see Older Product Samples.