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Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 106, June 2004

  • News
    Keep up with all that’s new.
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  • Exploiting .NET Metadata
    Pedro Agulló Soliveres demonstrates how to make the most of .NET metadata: using it for more than just design-time chores. Want to save and restore objects without knowing their internal structure? Want to inspect classes and load them as plug-ins in your app at runtime? Want to get information about a class and generate a wrapper for it? Read on!
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  • Collection Classes In .NET, Part 3
    Julian Bucknall wraps up his exploration of the collection classes in the .NET Framework by looking at the Hashtable class. Hash tables are one of Julian’s favourite algorithms, and deservedly as they provide a quick and simple means of getting at your data without the overhead of a database engine.
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  • Using Mailslots
     Alfred Mirzagitov thinks it’s a shame that mailslots are often overlooked by developers: they can be a life-saver when you are looking for a simple and reliable mechanism for inter-process communications. The article shows how to build wrapper classes for handling both ends of mailslot communications, and demonstrates how a mailslot client can talk to a mailslot server.
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  • Under Construction: IntraWeb For .NET
    Bob Swart examines IntraWeb for .NET, providing an overview and comparing it to ASP.NET (with Delphi 8 for .NET). He focuses on login and authorisation/authentication, database support, session and state management, navigation, deployment, and finally custom components (including third-party components).
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  • Exception Management Using Patterns And Practices
    Hart Kerbel shows how to use the Exception Management Application Block (or EMAB) from the Reference Building Blocks section of Microsoft’s  Patterns & Practices initiative. Pardon? Patterns & Practices provides ready-built and tested code that developers using the .NET Framework can plug right into their applications. Hart shows just how we can do this using Delphi 8 for .NET and the EMAB, to great effect.
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  • Converting Win32 Delphi Code To .NET
    Julian Bucknall provides a blow-by-blow account of how he converted his EZDSL data structures library for Delphi from Win32 to Delphi 8 for .NET. Follow the pain and the triumph, and pick up lots of useful tips for your own projects!
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  • Review: ProDelphi
    Craig Murphy checks out this profiling tool for Delphi, which now handles Delphi 8 for .NET code as well as previous versions of our favourite development tool.
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  • Review: Managed VCL v1.06
    Dave Jewell examines this intriguing component library which provides .NET Framework access for Delphi 7 projects.
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  • Book Review: Applied .NET Attributes
    Bob Swart provides his conclusions.
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