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Basic Image Transformation
Erik van Bilsen explains how to carry out some basic image manipulations using classic GDI (for Win32) and GDI+ (for .NET). He covers scaling, flipping and rotating, using BitBlt and StretchBlt, PlgBlt and finally coordinate space transformations.
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Under Construction: .NET Compact Framework
Bob Swart gets to grips with the recently released Delphi 2005 for .NET Compact Framework Technology Preview: a command-line compiler and collection of libraries which allow you to create applications for the .NET Compact Framework using Delphi 2005. In other words: use Delphi to develop software for your Pocket PC or SmartPhone!
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NHibernate Query Language
Pedro Agulló Soliveres continues his in-depth discussion of the NHibernate object-relational mapper. This month Pedro describes what NHibernate’s built-in query language, HQL, has to offer, from simple tasks right up to very complex multiple-table queries.
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Beefing Up Delphi Web Apps With XMLHTTPRequest
Jani Järvinen demonstrates the power of Microsoft’s XMLHTTPRequest object when used with JavaScript to create interactive web applications that update the browser display with fresh information from the server, but without any ugly screen refresh! More recently called AJAX, all of this technology is available for Delphi developers when creating ASP.NET, ISAPI and CGI applications.
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Evolve Your Database
Julian Bucknall has been thinking about applying agile development techniques to databases: just how do you avoid doing all of the detailed database design work up front when a project is going to involve a massive database? Is database refactoring (that is, changing your database structure when the project is live) a realistic possibility?
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Review: AidAim’s SQLMemTable 3.03
Craig Murphy evaluates this in-memory database library with powerful SQL capabilities from database specialists AidAim.
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Delphi, including converting short path names to long ones, COM+ issues, how to stop Delphi 2005 reformatting your HTML, current unofficial Delphi 2005 fixes, and moving Win32 clipboard code to .NET.
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