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Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 107, July 2004

  • News
    Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix.
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  • Min-Max Heaps

    • Julian Bucknall returns to his first love: algorithms. In this case, it’s min-max heaps he discusses, which touch along the way on priority queues and binary trees. After bubbling up, trickling down, and a man named Floyd, we learn that our min-max heap can be used as a black box class for retrieving a set of items in order, either ascending or descending, without having to iterate through the items in the container.
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  • Proxy Classes In .NET
    Pedro Agulló Soliveres demonstrates how to use proxy classes in .NET development to provide a very handy intermediary between some underlying class and the outside world, without modifying the existing source code for the underlying class (which is not only boring, but also is an ideal opportunity for all kinds of evil smelly bugs to creep into your finely crafted project).
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  • Using .NET Config Files
     Marc Scheuner discovers what makes the XML format application configuration files tick that are now de rigueur with your shiny new .NET applications. Marc shows what the .NET framework has to offer, its shortcomings, and how to get around them by adding a few custom classes.
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  • Firebird Conference 2004
    Nando Dessena reports from Fulda in Germany on the annual conference for users of the Firebird DBMS. What’s new and what is on the way for this popular database? Nando has the answers.
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  • Under Construction: Delphi 7 Update 1
    Bob Swart takes a good look at Update 1 for Delphi 7 to see what Borland has been doing to help the Win32 developers amongst us! Want to know if some annoying bug has been fixed – read on!
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  • Many Faces Of An Application
    Primoz Gabrijelcic shows how to write a multipurpose program: one that does more than one thing depending on what switches are used on the command line. As an example, he shows how to write a program that can act as a service, configuration manager for the service, and a tray monitor: all in one exe.
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  • Remoting With Delphi, Part 2
    Hart Kerbel completes his wide-ranging examination of .NET remoting with Delphi, with clear explanation and sample code to get you moving.
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  • Review: Discover
    Craig Murphy reviews Discover: an analysis tool that allows you to measure how thoroughly your programs have been tested.
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  • The Delphi Clinic:
    Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Delphi and Kylix, including some .NET application configuration file unexplained behaviour, ActionBands and MDI child windows, plus event handlers in the .NET framework.
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