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Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 100, December 2003

  • News
    Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
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  • High Performance Client/Server Applications
    Marcel van Brakel shows how to get the best out of client/server by using I/O completion ports and thread pooling.
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  • Twenty Years On: A Worm’s Eye View History Of Borland
    2003 is Borland’s 20th birthday, and Will Watts gives us a whistle-stop tour of the highlights from those twenty years.
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  • Building Strings With An Attitude
    Hallvard Vassbotn tackles the problem of making string utilities compatible with both Delphi for .NET and Win32. His solution to the knotty problems of mutability versus immutability, and a whole lot more besides, is a cross-platform implementation of the StringBuilder class that works happily in all your projects.
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  • Object Lifetime
    Sascha Frick has found that clearly understanding the lifetime of your objects solves a prominent but hardly recognised problem. He presents a simple solution to the issue, and discusses other avenues along the way.
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  • Delfhead
    Will Watts ponders Octane, C++BuilderX, Kylix and even PHP.
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  • Under Construction: RSS With Delphi For .NET
    Bob Swart continue his coverage of RSS channels and feeds, but this time using Delphi 8 for .NET. He focuses on Delphi 8’s XML and database support as it relates to this project, as well as the migration path for existing VCL applications.
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  • The Lost Art Of Recursion
    Rob Collins explains what recursion is all about, its uses in both recursive algorithms and recursive data structures, with some practical examples – even something that could come in handy on Christmas Eve!
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  • Review: Delphi 8, The .NET Generation
    Dave Jewell gets to grips with Borland’s latest offering in a long line of Pascal-based products, this time designed specifically for developing .NET applications.
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  • Handling SQL Mail
    Jason Sweby describes how to use the powerful email facilities handily built into Microsoft’s SQL Server database to get email sent directly from your applications in response to database triggers, and more.
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  • The Delphi Clinic
    Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Delphi and Kylix, including: more on window captions, and recording sound from your computer’s Line In port.
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