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NTFS Disk Quotas
Marcel van Brakel describes how to set and manage NTFS disk quotas programmatically.

Under Construction: Transactional Data Modules, 2
Bob Swart continues his coverage of MTS/COM+, discussing various security issues, as well as debugging techniques and deployment features.

Beating The System: Getting Ready for .NET!
Dave Jewell devotes this month’s column to a few assorted considerations of the ‘paradigm shift’ that we’re going to be making as part of the move to .NET, including garbage collection, the using keyword, namespaces, getting round some OOP aspects, and more.

Building An MPEG Video Decoder: Part 4
Erik van Bilsen continues unravelling the MPEG video format: this month he covers the discrete cosine transform and we get to see a real live video playing!

Algorithms Alfresco: Implementing Sets
Julian Bucknall finds that he has never covered sets in his tour of algorithms and data structures, so he sets to work [Geddit: sets to work? Oh please yourselves!] to create something that blows Delphi’s built-in support away.

Audio Compression Manager API
Peter Morris explains the murky depths of CODECs and audio formats, providing us with a Delphi window into the Windows audio compression manager API so that we too can have decent audio functionality in our applications.

One Last Compile...
The Great Delphi Bikini Contest

Review: ExpressSpreadSheet 1.0
Dave Jewell evaluates the latest component library from Developer Express, designed to make it a simple task to include Excel-compatible spreadsheet functionality in your own applications.

Review: DXSock Internet Server SDK 2.6
Dave Jewell checks out this suite of server-side internet components, which has been used to build the Winshock high-speed web server, amongst other things. There is definitely an emphasis on speed, but how does DXSock stack up on the usability and quality fronts? Only one way to know...

The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including: Apache 2.0 development, C-style pointer array access, translating old Delphi experts into new Delphi wizards, actions and shortcuts, visual form inheritance, issues with the Delphi library path, and DBGrid drag and drop.