News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
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NTFS Streams
Marcel van Brakel explains how to use the Windows NTFS file system’s ability to store multiple data streams within one file.
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XML Topic Maps
Craig Murphy discusses how XML topic maps provide a mechanism to intelligently classify information, and provides the details you need to implement topic maps in your own Delphi applications.
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Under Construction: Effective ClientDataSets
Bob Swart uses the ClientDataSet to implement the database design discussed last month, revealing some useful tips and showing how theoretical design sometimes needs to be tweaked to arrive at a practical solution.
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Directing DirectX Part 5: Showtime
Erik van Bilsen explores DirectX’s multimedia capabilities: capturing and playing back multimedia streams. He puts the knowledge gained to use by adding a movie player into the game which forms the focus of this series.
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InterBase 7.1 And The Borland Data Providers For ADO.NET
Bob Swart describes how to use the recently introduced Borland Data Providers For ADO.NET in the Delphi for .NET command-line preview compiler to access InterBase databases.
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Shared Events Part 1: Rationale, Design, Implementation
Primoz Gabrijelcic describes a system that allows multiple applications running on one computer to communicate freely, without the limitations of the Windows message-passing system, or the complexity of the shared memory / shared data approach.
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Endo-Testing Using Mock Objects: The Story Continues
Sascha Frick continues his discussion of the use of endoscopic testing and mock objects to solve problems faced in unit testing large and complex systems with some further practical examples.
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Delfhead At Large
Will Watts has nightmares about VB developers creating apps to run large industrial plant...
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Book Review
Bob Swart reviews ‘Essential .NET Volume 1 – The Common Language Runtime’ by Don Box with Chris Sells. Is this the right .NET reference for you?
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including: determining the mouse cursor position in a treeview control (amongst others) and how to implement thread synchronisation correctly in a multi-threading environment.
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