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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, as well as updates from the wider world of software development.
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Combining Collections
Julian Bucknall demonstrates how to use the collection classes Microsoft has thoughtfully provided for us in the .NET framework to create various new collection classes that have specialised behaviour. Along the way Julian shows us some of the reasoning he follows in creating each new design, demonstrating that this design iteration was made easier through test-driven development.
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IComparable: Sorting In .NET
Hart Kerbel gives us useful insight into the sorting of collection objects: a common requirement in .NET applications. Hart explores the use of  the IComparable interface, implementing it in his own class and also using it with the ArrayList class, both part of the .NET framework.
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Under Construction: Globalisation And Localisation
Bob Swart explains what globalisation and localisation are and provides an introduction to globalisation (the handling of international data using different character encodings plus date, time, number and currency formats). Bob’s main focus is on localisation details: producing different language translations of your applications. He shows how to do this with a VCL for Win32 application as well as with a WinForms application for .NET, accomplished using quite different techniques.
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Excel Finishing Touches Using OLE
Bill Naber shows how to use OLE with Delphi and Excel to create attractive and useful reports which could easily be distributed around his organisation.
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Delphi Meets The Volume Shadow Copy Service
Jani Järvinen shows how to use the Volume Shadow Copy Service in Windows Server 2003 to back up and restore files that are locked and/or in use, including database files that normally are always open and always in use. With the VSS API interfaces, Jani demonstrates how to build requestor applications that connect to the available writers to orchestrate a successful backup or restore operation.
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Mapping Relations In NHibernate
Pedro Agulló Soliveres continues his exploration of the NHibernate object-relational mapper by explaining how to map relations, introducing us to associations.
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Delphi and Kylix, including a fairly detailed overview of alternative memory managers which can be used with Delphi, and their pros and cons, as well as issues with .NET assemblies in Delphi 2005.
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