Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 113, January 2005

• News
  Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix.
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• Outlook Automation In Windows Services
  Jason Sweby needed to export information to Microsoft Outlook: a common requirement, but  this time the final product was not a Windows application, but a Windows service. Jason compares the use of simple MAPI, CDO and extended MAPI to provide this functionality.
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• Buffered Sorting And Stack Buffers
  Martin Humby shows how to sort very large TList-type structures much more quickly than TList’s built-in quicksort-based Sort method, by using mergesort with the buffers located on the stack for optimum performance.
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• EnterpriseServices: Component Pooling And JITA
  Pedro Agulló Soliveres explains how the .NET Just-in-Time Activation (JITA) service can provide a more productive usage of server resources, without client intervention and with no special code.  Combining JITA and pooling makes things even better.
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• Under Construction: .NET Command-Line Tools, Delphi 2005 IDE Support And Assembly Hell
  Bob Swart describes the use of some .NET command-line tools that can be helpful when integrated into the Delphi 2005 IDE. He also discusses some of the less visible gotchas in Delphi 2005 and the problems you will encounter using assemblies developed in one version of Delphi with a different version.
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• Retrieving Email Using POP3
  Alfred Mirzagitov rounds off his demonstration of email protocols by showing how to retrieve emails from a mailserver using the POP3 protocol, including handling attachments. Potential uses include a simple auto-responder, or even an automated technical support response centre! Once again, all this is done without any third-party software or components.
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• Review: FinalBuilder 2 Versus Automated Build Studio 1.1
  Craig Murphy puts these two powerful software system building tools head-to-head, created  by ATOZED Software and  AutomatedQA respectively. Their capabilities are truly astounding: not just compiling your code, but looking after help building, creating setup packages for distribution, and more. So which one offers the features and usability you need to keep your project builds on track and totally reliable?
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• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Delphi and Kylix, including: understanding how Delphi’s keystroke handling works, making use of the special keys on multimedia keyboards, setting Delphi’s default directory for new projects, and various issues encountered when handling XML files to customise the .NET configuration files facility.
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