News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
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SOAP And Control Networks
David Moorhouse demonstrates how to talk to a SOAP server embedded in an appliance that interacts with real-world objects, using Lonworks.
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Resource Monitoring
Erik van Bilsen shows how to write debug code that monitors your resources and alerts you at application shutdown if some resources have not been released. How? By installing a custom memory manager that tracks memory allocation and de-allocation, and patching the USER32, KERNEL32 and GDI32 DLL import tables to re-route Windows APIs that create and release resources (such as handles to files, bitmaps, brushes, icons, pens, etc).
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Tooltips Tips And Hacks
Tooltips are straightforward to get working, but what about customising them? How about changing the background colour, text colour and the amount of time they remain on screen? Brian Long explores the customisations we can make to our tooltips’ behaviour.
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Collection Classes In .NET
The .NET framework is very large and can be rather intimidating, especially if you have spent years getting familiar with the VCL! To help us along, Julian Bucknall starts a two-part series on the various container classes and interfaces Microsoft has provided for us in  System.Collections.
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Debugging With Forms
Jason Chapman describes a utility form he uses to help debug his applications.
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Under Construction: Delphi 8 For .NET And ASP.NET Web Services
Bob Swart discusses ASP.NET web services, considered by many to be the best part of the .NET framework. He also explains how to migrate your existing Delphi web service engines to ASP.NET in such a way that the resulting project can be compiled with both Delphi 7 and Delphi 8 for .NET.
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.NET Components Roundup
Craig Murphy provides an overview of  a selection of the .NET components available from some of the third-party vendors that Delphi users may not be familiar with, to help us get to grips
with the far larger pool of components now available to those of us using Delphi 8 for .NET. Components and suites covered are: Infragistics NetAdvantage 2003, Sax.net Communications, Sax.net Compression and Sax.net Barcodes, WordReports from JiSys, plus .NET Navigator from PureComponents.
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Delphi and Kylix, including a discussion of how to use the mutex and critical section synchronisation mechanisms, using security settings in the Windows NT family of operating systems, and a whole raft of undocumented goodies to be found in Delphi 8 for .NET (including those essential Easter Eggs of course!).
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