News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix.
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BorCon 2004: SDO And Diamondback
Bob Swart reports from Borland’s annual conference on the new Delphi developments just around the corner.
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Storing Heterogeneous Data With Blob Fields
Erik van Bilsen shows how to use blob fields in a database to store whole collections of fields that would otherwise not only clutter up your database structure but also make it harder to maintain and extend.
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Geocoding With Microsoft MapPoint
Bill Naber explains how we can interface with Microsoft’s mapping software and use it to geocode street addresses (that’s translating addresses into latitude and longitude to you and me):  it’s a lot more useful than you might at first think!
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Under Construction: Big Brother Is Watching You
Bob Swart describes how to take control over the running of an application; specifically, to control how frequently MSN Messenger is used and for how many minutes in each day: very handy if  like Bob you have kids who are addicted to MSN, or perhaps to their favourite game.
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EnterpriseServices And Distributed Transactions
Pedro Agulló Soliveres returns to the subject of .NET Enterprise Services, this month discussing distributed transactions.
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Sneaky Stuff With ActiveForms
Richard Stevens has found a sneaky way of avoiding the pain of upgrading a large and complex application from one version of Delphi to another. He shows how you can add web services into a Delphi 5 application using a Delphi 7 ActiveForm.
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Parser Combinators
Julian Bucknall completes his mini-series on creating and using parser combinators, ending up with some carefully crafted code which makes specifying and creating database tables in SQL code a doddle.
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A Developer’s Guide To Windows Server 2003
Bob Swart runs through some gotchas in Microsoft’s server operating system.
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Review: Gnostice’s EDocEngine VCL 1.1 And PDFToolkit
Craig Murphy reviews some useful electronic document management components from Gnostice.
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Review: Northwoods GoDiagram 2.2.2
Craig Murphy checks out this diagramming toolkit.
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Delphi and Kylix, including: creating image thumbnails, setting file attributes, .NET 1.1 SP 1 troubles, local variables in .NET and keyboard shortcuts in Delphi 8 and 2005.
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