Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 76, December 2001



		Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 76, December 2001 News Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development. Using ADSI: An Introduction Marc Scheuner shows how to get going with ADSI (Active Directories to you and me). He describes some handy helper components and helps de-mystify the subject for us. Algorithms Alfresco: As Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night Julian Bucknall has been nobbled by Santa Claus again, so here are your Christmas algorithms for 2001 (of course, if you have not been good boys and girls they will all generate access violations...). Conference Report: Microsoft Professional Developers Conference Hart Kerbel reports back from Microsoft’s latest .NET Love-In! Testing: Quality Time With DUnit Rob Bracken checks out what extreme programming using DUnit can do for your application development. Delphi Does ADO... Slowly! Martin Lanza found that sometimes Delphi does ADO slowly and came up with some guidelines and tips to make things better. Beating The System: Searching Issues, 2 Dave Jewell returns to the topic of text search and replace, with an alternative approach which gives more flexibility and better performance too. Dynamic Delphi Applications With ActiveScript Malcolm Groves explains how to add scripting to your Delphi applications using Microsoft ActiveScript, opening up a world of application customisation possibilities for you and your users. One Last Compile... How was it for you? Under Construction: New DataSnap Connections Bob Swart checks out DataSnap local connections. There are three new components in Delphi 6 especially written for DataSnap connections (or providers of data), namely the ConnectionBroker, SharedConnection and LocalConnection. Bob explains what they are and how to use them. XML And DataSnap Marc Hoffman examines Delphi 6’s XML transformation technology, showing how the TXMLTransformProvider components allow us to use an XML file as a replacement for a fully-fledged database system. Review: ExpressLayout Control 1.0 Dave Jewell casts his expert eye over ExpressLayout from Developer Express. Review: TeeChart Pro 5.02 Dave Jewell checks out TeeChart Pro 5.02 from Steema Software. The Delphi Clinic Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi.

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