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Keep up with all that’s fresh in the world of Delphi: exciting new products and services for our favourite development tool, as well as updates from the wider world of software development that affect our daily development work.
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Borland Developer Studio 2006 Reviewed
Brian Long and Bob Swart check out the latest version of Delphi, now reincarnated as a personality in a product called Borland Developer Studio. Brian gives us an overview, concentrating on new features which will be found in all editions of the new version. Bob, meanwhile, concentrates on stuff which is aimed at a higher level and which is sometimes limited to the more expensive editions, specifically Enterprise Core Objects III, the Together UML Designer, design patterns, code metrics, database goodies and more.
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IComparer: Sorting In .NET
Hart Kerbel explains how to use the IComparer interface when sorting in our .NET applications.
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COM Interop Part 1: .NET Consuming COM
Brian Long brings us the first of two in-depth articles on using .NET COM interop: how to mix COM and .NET together. This time, he examines the details of how .NET applications can consume COM, covering runtime callable wrappers, generating interop assemblies, the .NET framework SDK utilities, dealing with COM errors, strong names, primary interop assemblies and more.
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Thread-Safe Data Types And Operations
Martin Humby shows how to solve various issues when working with thread-safe data types and operations in multithreaded applications. With just a little bit of assembler we find that we can safely overcome a number of problems.
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System Event Notification Service (SENS)
Marcel van Brakel describes how we can make use of the API to this background system service application to receive notifications about a variety of system-related events through the COM+ event system, including network and connection testing.
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Under Construction: Web Services And Security
Bob Swart demonstrates various techniques that can be used to secure SOAP messages: adding both authentication and encryption to your web services, for Win32 as well as .NET applications. We learn about encryption and decryption using symmetric and asymmetric algorithms, plus WS-Security and X509 too.
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More NHibernate Features
Pedro Agulló Soliveres continues his in-depth discussion of the NHibernate object-relational mapper. This month Pedro introduces NHibernate 1.0.0.0 and describes a selection of miscellaneous features.
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