News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
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An Introduction to XForms
Craig Murphy describes how XForms overcomes the limitations of simplistic HTML forms, allowing a single form definition to be rendered in a variety of different devices, whether ‘rendering’ means displaying visually or converting into speech (vocalisation).
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ASP.NET Security
Bob Swart shows how authorisation and authentication work in the .NET Framework, and puts the theory to good use to demonstrate how to limit access to areas of your website with some straightforward ASP.NET code, making use of ASP.NET forms authentication.
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Action Band Extensions
Erik van Bilsen focuses on three aspects of action bands. First, he explains how you can create custom colour maps, action bars and action controls, to create new visual styles. Along the way, he uncovers a limitation of action bars, preventing us from placing arbitrary controls on a toolbar. A custom action type comes to the rescue in this case. Finally, Erik examines another, sometimes more serious, limitation: the lack of support for form inheritance in TActionManager.
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Collection Classes In .NET, Part 2
Julian Bucknall continues his exploration of the collection classes in the .NET Framework. This month he covers the IList interface and explains what lists are all about in .NET, with a side excursion into the wonders of boxing (no violence is involved, I promise you...).
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A Portable XML
Primoz Gabrijelcic shows us how to use the OmniXML parser: it’s free, doesn’t require an external DLL, is fast, and comes with useful tools. Primoz also implements a simple RSS reader and generator to demonstrate OmniXML in action.
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Under Construction: ASP.NET User And Custom Controls
Bob Swart explains the two ways to implement custom ASP.NET controls: adding them to an existing ASP.NET web forms application (in which case they are called ASP.NET user controls), or creating a complete new package for them (which is called a Web Control Library) and thereby ending up with an ASP.NET custom control. In this month’s column Bob describes and demonstrates both techniques.
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Review: XForms formsPlayer
Craig Murphy checks out x-port.net’s formsPlayer, a  plug-in for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser which allows XForms to be rendered.
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Delphi and Kylix, including a lost Class Completion mystery, Automation problems with FileMaker Pro, the difference between public and published sections in .NET code, as well as an update from Issue 102.
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