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With a new name and a new focus on CORBA, database drivers, and Microsoft Back Office applications, Inprise/Borland Delphi is enjoying a resurgence, with a growing user base of programmers who use Delphi for rapid development of enterprise computing applications. Not to rest on success, the latest version of Delphi, Version 5, includes further expansion and refinement of the 3-tier application framework introduced in Delphi 4 and has resulted in a prize-winning product.Delphi in a Nutshell is the first concise reference to Borland/Inprise Delphi available. It succinctly collects all the information you need in one easy-to-use, complete, and accurate volume that goes beyond the product documentation itself.Delphi in a Nutshell starts with the Delphi object model and how to use RTTI (Run Time Type Information) for efficient programming. The rest of the book is the most complete Delphi Pascal language reference available in print, detailing every language element with complete syntax, examples, and methods for use. The book concludes with a look at the compiler, discussing compiler directives in depth.
Preface;
Not Your Father’s Pascal;
Delphi for Linux;
About This Book;
Conventions Used in This Book;
For More Information;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Delphi Pascal;
1.1 Units;
1.2 Programs;
1.3 Libraries;
1.4 Packages;
1.5 Data Types;
1.6 Variables and Constants;
1.7 Exception Handling;
1.8 File I/O;
1.9 Functions and Procedures;
Chapter 2: The Delphi Object Model;
2.1 Classes and Objects;
2.2 Interfaces;
2.3 Reference Counting;
2.4 Messages;
2.5 Memory Management;
2.6 Old-Style Object Types;
Chapter 3: Runtime Type Information;
3.1 Virtual Method Table;
3.2 Published Declarations;
3.3 The TypInfo Unit;
3.4 Virtual and Dynamic Methods;
3.5 Initialization and Finalization;
3.6 Automated Methods;
3.7 Interfaces;
3.8 Exploring RTTI;
Chapter 4: Concurrent Programming;
4.1 Threads and Processes;
4.2 The TThread Class;
4.3 The BeginThread and EndThread Functions;
4.4 Thread Local Storage;
4.5 Processes;
4.6 Futures;
Chapter 5: Language Reference;
Chapter 6: System Constants;
6.1 Variant Type Codes;
6.2 Open Array Types;
6.3 Virtual Method Table Offsets;
6.4 Runtime Error Codes;
Chapter 7: Operators;
7.1 Unary Operators;
7.2 Multiplicative Operators;
7.3 Additive Operators;
7.4 Comparison Operators;
Chapter 8: Compiler Directives;
Command-Line Tools;
The SysUtils Unit;
Errors and Exceptions;
File Management;
String Management;
Numeric Conversion;
Dates and Times;
Localization;
Modules;
Windows;
Miscellaneous;
Anonymous
Posted Wed Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2002
Ray has written an excellent desktop reference for Delphi. I really liked the explanation of the SysUtils unit. I found that there were functions in there that I had written myself, if I had only known I would have saved myself some time. The Language reference with the Tips and Tricks is excellent, helps make more sense of the sometimes archaic online help. My only complaint is that this is the ONLY Delphi book published by O’Reilly, I would love to see a Learning, Programming, or Mastering book!
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Posted Wed Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2001
Everyone who develops in Delphi loves it. (I've never met an exception to this rule!) I've worked with Delphi since version 1 and read a lot of books along the way. Certain names stand out: Cantu, Jensen, Teixeira & Pacheco, Konopka. But if Ray Lischner wrote it, you owe it to yourself to read it! I believe that you don't REALLY know Delphi until you've read this book. (Yes, I know the bulk of it is reference... READ IT!) The early chapters give powerful insight into Delphi that you just can't get anywhere else.
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Posted Thu Mar 30 00:00:00 EST 2000
'Delphi in a Nutshell' isn't just another ordinary Delphi book. Once again Ray has manage to take on topics that are unique and not covered in any detail if at all by other authors. The chapters on RTTI and the Delphi object model alone are well worth the price. This goes onto my short list of 'must have' Delphi books for any serious program (For the record they are 'Secrets of Delphi 2' & 'Hidden Paths of Delphi 3' by Lischner, 'Delphi 5 Developer's Guide' Teixeira & Pacheco, 'Delphi Developers Handbook' Cantu and now 'Delphi in a Nutshell'). Good work Ray.
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Overview
With a new name and a new focus on CORBA, database drivers, and Microsoft Back Office applications, Inprise/Borland Delphi is enjoying a resurgence, with a growing user base of programmers who use Delphi for rapid development of enterprise computing applications. Not to rest on success, the latest version of Delphi, Version 5, includes further expansion and refinement of the 3-tier application framework introduced in Delphi 4 and has resulted in a prize-winning product.Delphi in a Nutshell is the first concise ...