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Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.

End-User Form Design
Guy Smith-Ferrier examines solutions for end-user form design: allowing the user to move and resize components on a form, saving and restoring new form designs, allowing the user to add new components and fields, and to specify validation for new fields. Mmmm, lots to think about there!

Algorithms Alfresco: Stimulating Simulation
Julian Bucknall dicusses discrete event simulation: or, how to let checkout operators destroy customers and how to predict exactly when you will get the flu! Don’t worry, it’s actually easier than you think.

Generating XML The Easy Way
Berend de Boer shows us an easy and fast way of generating syntactically correct XML in our applications when the heavyweight tools built into Delphi and third-party libraries would just be overkill.

Creating Office XP Smart Tags
Brian Long shows how to use Delphi to create Smart Tags: a snazzy new feature in Microsoft’s most recent incarnation of Office: Office XP. You read it here first...

Under Construction: DataSnap And SOAP
Bob Swart explains how to build cross-platform (Windows and Linux)and cross-language (Delphi and Kylix) multi-tier applications using DataSnap and SOAP.

Common Delphi Traps And Pitfalls
Gavin Clements runs through some frequently encountered gotchas: avoid learning these the hard way, be sure to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest.

One Last Compile...
Delphi and the web.

Beating The System: The Real-Estate Expert
Dave Jewell presents part 1 of an anarchist’s guide to writing Delphi IDE plug-ins.

Introducing Steganography
Eyal Hirsch describes how to put steganography into practice. Eh? What’s that? Encrypting messages inside bitmaps, voice files and more. Fascinating stuff.

Converting RTF To HTML
Hart Kerbel describes how he approached this task and along the way reviews three component packages: WPTools (Julian Ziersch Software), TX Text Control (The Imaging Source) and TE Developer’s Kit (Sub Systems).

The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including: OLE Automation with Word 97, finding out if you are an Automation server, code completion features, streaming components, menus/buttons and the clipboard, overcoming Rich Edit limits, and QuickReport issues.