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Rethinking Parsers
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Julian Bucknall hates writing parsers because they’re so awkward to write and get right, so this month he starts going back to basics with parsing, searching for an easier way, starting with BNF (Backus-Naur Form) grammar and parser combinators.

Under Construction: Webcam Publishing
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Bob Swart wanted to find an easy way to keep in touch with the family while he’s away, so he developed some nifty applications to make use of a few webcams: capturing, publishing and retrieving images, using a variety of Win32 and .NET technologies.

Making Applications Extensible With .NET Scripting
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Pedro Agulló Soliveres describes how to make use of the .NET framework’s facilities to add both VB.NET and JScript.net scripting support to your Delphi for .NET applications so that your users can extend those applications easily with languages they will understand.

Information Retrieval With The Indexing Service
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Eric van Bilsen explains Microsoft’s powerful and feature-rich Indexing Service, built into Windows 2000, XP and 2003, and demonstrates its capabilities in locating information quickly and effectively, as well as how to interface to the Indexing Service from your Delphi applications. Searching may never be the same again!

Rethinking Pascal
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Julian Bucknall checks out a beta version of RemObjects’ Chrome product: a totally new implementation of the Pascal language for the .NET framework, that plugs into Microsoft’s Visual Studio for .NET. Although Chrome is an unfinished product, there are lots of new ideas and language features that will give Delphi developers pause for thought: this is certainly one article that you will not want to miss! Could this be the future of development for the .NET environment for Delphi developers, or should we stick with the Borland language and IDE?

Review: Castalia 2.4
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Craig Murphy evaluates this suite of IDE tools and enhancements for Delphi, which includes built-in refactoring capabilities. Is Castalia a distraction, or a genuine time-saver? See what Craig has to say.

The Delphi Clinic
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Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Delphi and Kylix, including: freeing libraries in COM development, how to convert text to WAV files at various qualities, explaining some strange GDI leaks in Delphi for .NET WinForms applications, removing unwanted empty event handlers in Delphi for .NET, and how to call routines whose names are also reserved words.