Developer's Guide to Delphi Troubleshooting


Book Description

A comprehensive reference to error messages in the Delphi development environment, this volume puts an emphasis on design-time errors, compile-time errors, and run-time errors. The CD-ROM includes the entire book in electronic form for easy reference.




Borland Delphi 6 Developer's Guide


Book Description

Borland(r) Delphi 6 Developer's Guide is a new edition of the #1 best-selling Delphi book by authors Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco. Steve and Xavier are of the winners of the Delphi Informant Reader's Choice Award for both Delphi 4 Developer's Guide and Delphi 5 Developer's Guide. Borland(r) Delphi 6 Developer's Guide is completely updated for Delphi 6 and includes in-depth coverage on Borland's new CLX architecture, DBExpress Applications, SOAP, CORBA, WebSnap and BizSnap features. It continues as a complete reference and authoritative guide to the newest version of Delphi.




Delphi Developer's Guide to OpenGL


Book Description

A comprehensive title targeted at experienced 32-bit Delphi programmers and developers in the use of the industry graphics standard library, OpenGL, which has become a standard for programming in the animation and computer game industries.




Client/server Developer's Guide with Delphi 3


Book Description

Showing Delphi developers how to implement client/server solutions with Borland's programming language, this book includes detailed discussion of using efficient database design to optimize applications for the area. It covers Delphi's advances features, such as multi-threading and cached updates.




Tomes of Delphi


Book Description

Book and CD-ROM. This is an alphabetical reference to almost 1,000 design-time, compile-time, and run-time error messages that can be encountered while working with Borland's Delphi Object Pascal language. This updated edition covers Delphi versions 1-6, so the book is comprehensive. This is the only book on the market that provides troubleshooting coverage of Delphi. For each error message cited, the possible causes of the error are given, along with clear and concise information on how to resolve the problem. Additional clarifying information is also provided to help explain the context of the error message and its resolution.




Delphi Developer's Guide to XML


Book Description

Delphi Developer's Guide to XML, 2nd Edition explains how to apply the power and flexibility of Delphi to XML, the Extensible Markup Language. This title is targeted at Delphi developers who want to use the power of XML in their applications. XML and related specifications (including XPath, XSL, XSLT, and XML Schema) are transforming the Internet and business-to-business (B2B) communications, defining a data format that is platform- and language-independent. Standardized access to XML documents is provided via the Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX) specifications. These XML processors allow more efficient handling of documents as well as the ability to move information between platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Unix.




Delphi 5 Developer's Guide


Book Description

The authors explore, in depth, the latest information on the best ways to build efficient usable applications with Delphi 5.




Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide


Book Description

Use structural, behavioral, and concurrent patterns in Delphi to skillfully develop applications Key FeaturesDelve into the core patterns and components of Delphi to enhance your application's designLearn how to select the right patterns to improve your program's efficiency and productivityDiscover how parallel programming and memory management can optimize your codeBook Description Delphi is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development for most operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, iOS, and now Linux with RAD Studio 10.2. If you know how to use the features of Delphi, you can easily create scalable applications in no time. This Learning Path begins by explaining how to find performance bottlenecks and apply the correct algorithm to fix them. You'll brush up on tricks, techniques, and best practices to solve common design and architectural challenges. Then, you'll see how to leverage external libraries to write better-performing programs. You'll also learn about the eight most important patterns that'll enable you to develop and improve the interface between items and harmonize shared memories within threads. As you progress, you'll also delve into improving the performance of your code and mastering cross-platform RTL improvements. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to address common design problems and feel confident while building scalable projects. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Delphi High Performance by Primož GabrijelčičHands-On Design Patterns with Delphi by Primož GabrijelčičWhat you will learnUnderstand parallel programming and work with the various tools included with DelphiExplore memory managers and their implementationLeverage external libraries to write better-performing programsKeep up to date with the latest additions and design techniques in DelphiGet to grips with various modern multithreading approachesBreak a design problem down into its component partsWho this book is for This Learning Path is for intermediate-level Delphi programmers who want to build robust applications using Delphi features. Prior knowledge of Delphi is assumed.




Code Faster in Delphi


Book Description

Don't touch that mouse! Hands on the keyboard, and eyes front. You're about to embark on a Bootcamp to tone your coding muscles, sharpen your shortcuts, fix forms faster, and accelerate your career as a Delphi Programmer. Now drop and give me twenty lines of code and five laps of that while loop. This book will help you Code Faster in Delphi through a vast array of tips, tricks and hacks to squeeze every bit of productivity out of yourself and the Delphi IDE. Some ways your coding will be made easier: By enhancing the IDE with plugins. You'll be introduced to powerful language features such as: Interfaces Generics Anonymous Methods Get started with some of the best parts of the Run-Time Library, including: Generic Collections Parallel Programming Library Regular Expressions Enhanced RTTI FireDAC Use Meta-Programming to write and modify code to save you from horribly repetitive tasks. Improve your physical environment with easy solutions to hardware and station problems. And of course, once you've mastered these, where to go to get even faster and better. With over one hundred areas of improvement covered, this holistic approach to Coding Faster In Delphi will boost your productivity, and therefore your value to your clients, bosses, and colleagues.




Ruby Developers Guide


Book Description

An expert guide to Ruby, a popular new Object-Oriented Programming LanguageRuby is quickly becoming a favourite among developers who need a simple, straight forward, portable programming language. Ruby is ideal for quick and easy object-oriented programming such as processing text files or performing system management. Having been compared with other programming languages such as Perl, Python, PCL, Java, Eiffel, and C++; Ruby is popular because of its straight forward syntax and transparent semantics.Using step-by-step examples and real world applications, the Ruby Developer's Guide is designed for programmers and developer's looking to embrace the object-oriented features and functionality of this robust programming language. Readers will learn how to develop, implement, organize and deploy applications using Ruby. - Ruby is currently experiencing a rapid rise in popularity in the object-oriented programming community - Readers receive up-to-the minute links, white papers, and analysis for two years at [email protected] - Comes with a wallet-sized CD containing a printable HTML version of the book, all of the source code examples and demos of popular Ruby third-party programming tools and applications