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Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
Reader Survey Feedback
Some interesting results from our recent reader survey, showing a little bit more about what makes Delphi developers tick!
User Customisable Keyboard Shortcuts
Stephen Posey demonstrates how keyboard shortcuts can be very easy using Actions.
Algorithms Alfresco: Getting Your Priorities Right
Julian Bucknall explains priority queues, with some new implementations of this old favourite.
Building An MPEG Video Decoder: Part 5
Eric van Bilsen has another part of his occasional series on building an MPEG video decoder, this month covering colour conversion.
Debugging Techniques: Part 3
Brian Long continues his exploration of debugging techniques with a look at memory consumption in your Windows applications: how to find and fix those elusive heap leaks.
Beating The System: Getting To Grips With .NET Preview
Dave Jewell examines what you can actually do with the Delphi For .NET Preview included with Delphi 7. He looks at some real code, checks snippets of generated MSIL code that are produced by the compiler and delves under the hood.
Under Construction: Delphi 7 SOAP And UDDI
Bob Swart describes the changes and enhancements to SOAP in Delphi 7, most
notably the UDDI browser, as well as a workaround for an ISAPI SOAP problem.
One Last Compile...
Breaking with tradition
Writing A Simple OLE DB Driver
Pedro Agulló Soliveres explains how to use the Microsoft OLE DB Simple Provider (OSP) Toolkit to develop simple OLE DB drivers with Delphi, thereby providing near-universal access to your data from a large number of software tools.
Interview: CodeRusher
Will Watts interviews Mark Miller, the developer of CodeRush.
Review: Greatis Form Designer 3.4
Dave Jewell checks out this runtime form design package from Greatis.
Review: Chilkat S/MIME Version 2.1.6
Dave Jewell evaluates this ActiveX component from Chilkat for secure, encrypted and signed, MIME email attachments.
The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi.