List of Sidebars
List of Sidebars
Chapter 1: Delphi 7 and Its IDE
- Drop-Down Fonts in the Object Inspector
- The Empty Project Template
- Installing New DLL Wizards
Chapter 2: The Delphi Programming Language
- Accessing Protected Data of Other Classes (or, the "Protected Hack")
- Debugging and Exceptions
Chapter 3: The Run-Time Library
- Executable Size under the Microscope
- Simple Dragging in Delphi
Chapter 4: Core Library Classes
- Object Streaming versus Code Generation
- Accessing Published Fields and Methods
- Writing a Custom Stream Class
Chapter 5: Visual Controls
- From Qt to CLX
Chapter 6: Building the User Interface
- A Really Cool Toolbar
Chapter 7: Working with Forms
- Using Windows without a Mouse
Chapter 8: The Architecture of Delphi Applications
- Forms in Pages
- INI Files and the Registry in Delphi
Chapter 9: Writing Delphi Components
- Installing the Components Created in This Chapter
- Building Compound Components with Frames
- Property-Naming Conventions
Chapter 11: Modeling and OOP Programming (with ModelMaker)
- Where's the VCL? Inheritance and Importing Code in ModelMaker
- Design Patterns 101
Chapter 12: From COM to COM+
- COM Instancing and Threading Models
- Interfaces, Variants, and Dispatch Interfaces: Testing the Speed Difference
Chapter 13: Delphi's Database Architecture
- A Data Module for Data-Access Components
Chapter 14: Client/Server with dbExpress
- OIDs to the Extreme
- A Short History of InterBase
- The TimeStamp Field Type
Chapter 17: Writing Database Components
- Replicable Data-Aware Controls
Chapter 19: Internet Programming: Sockets and Indy
- Internet Direct (Indy) Open Source Components
Chapter 24: The Microsoft .NET Architecture from the Delphi Perspective
- Issues with Overriding Finalize
