News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
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Garbage Collection In .NET
Julian Bucknall has had enough of Fluffy Bunny’s guide to the garbage collector, so here he is giving us the low down on what the garbage collector actually does in the .NET Common Language Runtime.
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Objects Or Interfaces?
Rob Bracken leaps into the lions’ den and opens a discussion on whether we should base our development on objects or interfaces. What are the pros and cons? Which approach works best in which situation?
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Under Construction: Delphi 8 For .NET And Data Access Technologies
Bob Swart discusses several solutions for data access on .NET, both for VCL applications and  those which do not use VCL for .NET, and explains when to use what, including an introduction to ADO.NET.
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Delfhead At Large
Will Watts has news from Cix on the popularity of various Delphi versions, the likely uptake of Delphi for .NET, and reports back from the newsgroup rumour machine on some startling recent developments at Borland...
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Shared Events Part 2: Redesign
Primoz Gabrijelcic returns to his shared event system and addresses some performance issues by redesigning the internal storage mechanism. Along the way we gain useful insights into XML use and application profiling.
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IntraWeb And ActiveForms
Bob Swart shows how to use IntraWeb and ActiveForms together to create some innovative solutions for your intranet/extranet needs: the sum is definitely greater than the parts!
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Exceptional Beginnings
Liz Mannering starts from scratch to explain exceptions and Delphi’s exception handling features. If you have always wanted to know more than just try..except, or found the whole exceptions bit rather baffling, then this is the place to learn, with custom exceptions, re-raising and the whole works.
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Book Review: ADO.NET In A Nutshell
Bob Swart checks out a large tome from O’Reilly on how to use .NET’s own data access strategy.
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Review: Building PDFs On The Fly Using QuickPDF
Craig Murphy reviews QuickPDF from SEDTech: is this the way to go for Acrobat PDF generation in your applications?
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Delphi and Kylix, including: solving a TActionList nightmare, Delphi 8’s code folding options explained, plus some weird file finding happenings with FindFirst and FindNext.
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