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Keep up with all that’s fresh in the world of Delphi and Kylix: exciting new products and services for our favourite development tools.
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HTML Help To The Max
Erik van Bilsen unravels the HTML Help system and shows how to get it to work in Delphi for Win32 and .NET applications. But that’s not all: we take a tour of the internals of an HTML Help file and obtain the information we need to create an embedded help window and a help system that does not depend on Internet Explorer.
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How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Databases
Richard Stevens gives some pointers on how to use data modules to give your database applications a solid, extensible architecture.
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Prime Properties: Enhancing The Object Inspector
Keith Wood shows how to add enhanced property editors to make the Object Inspector more visual, enabling us to easily see property settings at a glance. Whilst the emphasis is on the Delphi for .NET environment in Delphi 2005, the differences in creating property editors for Win32 Delphi are also covered.
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EnterpriseServices: Loosely Coupled Events And Security
Pedro Agulló Soliveres explains the loosely coupled events classes in EnterpriseServices for .NET and shows how they can be more useful than the tightly coupled events model that we are more familiar with in Delphi.
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 Put It In A Tree
Primoz Gabrijelcic explains the requirements of displaying hierarchical data, as used in a threaded discussion, for example, and develops several ways of dealing with the problem, with some interesting insights into algorithm efficiency along the way.
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Under Construction: Delphi 2005 And Unit Testing
Bob Swart gives us a thorough run-down of Delphi 2005’s unit testing capabilities, showing in detail how to use them for both .NET and Win32 projects. If you are new to the concept of unit testing this article is an excellent place to start getting to grips with what is fast becoming an essential part of any developer’s toolkit!
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The Data Protection API
Hart Kerbel explains what Microsoft’s data protection API, or DPAPI, is all about and how it can be used to provide public key encryption and decryption services for our applications with very little effort.
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Review: AutomatedQA AQdevTeam 1.68
Craig Murphy reviews this software tool which was designed to be a project control and management system for both large and small development teams, allowing you (say the developers) to track all the information relevant to the welfare of any software project. Could it be an essential tool for you? Read on to discover more.
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