Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 114, February 2005

• News
  Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix.
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• The .NET Process Publishing API
  Marcel van Brakel explains what the Process Publishing API is and how it will help you get more detailed information on the processes running on your machine than you thought feasible!
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• Caulking With Delphi
  Bill Naber thinks Delphi is ideal for the small tasks that make many folk reach for a scripting language, such as integrating diverse programs, converting data and the like. He explains his reasoning and provides some real-life examples.
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• Under Construction: .NET Assemblies, Security And AppDomains
  Bob Swart explains the problems caused by assemblies that include P/Invoke calls, and explains how to overcome them. He then moves on to  demonstrate how to dynamically load assemblies and use Reflection to get class types, methods and fields from these assemblies, plus unloading assemblies using an AppDomain and a wrapper.
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• Asynchronous I/O In Windows
  Pedro Agulló Soliveres explains asynchronous input/output and how it can fit into your applications and avoid the need for complex multi-threaded code in many situations. The standard Delphi I/O routines are all blocking, which has several disadvantages... but by using the overlapped or asynchronous I/O API we can overcome these issues to have real non-blocking I/O operations.
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• Using Web Services To Manage Your Websites
  Richard Stevens re-introduces you to web services, with particular emphasis on using them to manage databases on your websites, providing a far more usable and effective administrative back-end than a complex and hard-to-use web application.
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• Using .ini Files As Databases
  Bob Swart shows how the humble .ini file can easily do duty for us in those situations where a database library or DBMS of some kind is needed but would in reality be overkill for your apps. Not only that, but they provide a cross-platform solution that works on Win32, .NET and Linux (with Kylix).
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• Topological Sorting
  Julian Bucknall uses topological sorting to quickly determine the optimal order in which to complete a set of tasks, some of which depend on others to be completed first. Sounds complicated? Don’t worry, this is a surprisingly common requirement and our resident algorithm-meister makes it all as easy as pie...
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• Review: WPCubed’s WPTools Pro 5.1 Bundle
  Craig Murphy evaluates this package of tools and libraries from WPCubed which aims to provide full word processing functionality within your applications, with as little as one line of code! Does it do the business? Read on to find out.
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