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Keep up with all that’s fresh in the world of Delphi and Kylix: exciting new products and services for our favourite development tools.
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Profiling Your Delphi .NET Applications With The CLR Profiler
Jani Järvinen shows how the CLR Profiler, a free tool from Microsoft, can give detailed insight into the memory allocation and call tree profile of your .NET applications (including GUI, ASP.NET and service applications), without the need to access the source code. And since .NET is a programming language-neutral platform, the tool works just as well with Delphi applications as with those written in C# or other .NET languages.
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Introducing NHibernate
Pedro Agulló Soliveres introduces us to a new series on NHibernate: an open-source porting of Hibernate, which has become the de facto standard object-relational mapper in the Java world. This month Pedro discusses issues to solve in an OO-Relational mapper, strategies for long transactions, and more.
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Under Construction: Using The Skype API With Delphi
Bob Swart examines how to make use of the API for the increasingly popular Skype internet telephony application in Delphi to create a range of useful utilities for Skype users, including a nifty software answering machine. He also shows us how to make Skype calls from inside our Delphi applications.
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The Idle Task
Gert Kello wants to make programs that have long-running tasks a lot more friendly, by allowing the user to intervene, even bring things to a halt, while a task is running, without fear of an Access Violation. He finds that Application.OnIdle fits the bill exactly and demonstrates how to put it to good use in our own applications.
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Creating Easily Testable User Interfaces
Julian Bucknall wants us all to throw away those cumbersome, tedious and  expensive script-based user interface testing tools: he has worked out how to code a great replacement for them that gives you automated user interface testing without the expense and pain.
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Joining SQL
Bob Swart explains how to get real value out of SQL’s JOIN command  to perform complex queries efficiently and effectively. If you’ve always been baffled by inner, outer, left and right JOINs, this is the right place to start dispelling the mystery!
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Review: 9Rays FlyGrid.Net
Craig Murphy evaluates this tree and grid control for .NET WinForms application development. Could it warrant a place in your toolbox? Read Craig’s conclusions to find out.
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