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Easy Web Controls
Paul Warren has a really neat and easy way to generate and use visual web controls such as a calendar and charts in your web applications.

Under Construction: Delphi 5 Active Server Objects
Bob Swart describes how easy it is to create and use Active Server Objects in Delphi 5 that can be used in web (or intranet) pages created using Microsoft’s Active Server Pages scripting language.

ADOX Extensions For DDL And Security
Guy Smith-Ferrier returns to ADO this month to explain how to use ADOX: an additional set of interfaces for ADO that allow us to handle the creation, maintenance and security of databases from our applications.

Beating The System: Groovy Group Boxes
Dave Jewell creates an enhanced group box control which automatically enables and disables the child controls within it, ridding us of the burden of extra programming to grey-out and un-grey child controls each and every time. And Dave’s control has more clever swings and bells too!

One Last Compile...
We should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky.

Dragging And Dropping Part 3: Windows
Brian Long has the third part of his in-depth examination of drag and drop in Delphi applications, describing inter-application drag and drop using the Windows API. In particular Brian shows how to make your Delphi application act as a recipient for information dragged from other Windows applications.

Algorithms Alfresco: Strictly Confidential
Julian Bucknall unravels the complexities of Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption, showing how this widely-used private key encryption algorithm works and providing code to plug in and use.

COM Corner: More Callbacks
Steve Teixeira shows how to perform a simple interface-based callback from a COM server to a client.

The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: writing and reading strings to/from streams, copying to and from RichEdits and using ActiveForms.