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Updates and product information from the world of Delphi and compatible development toolsBeating The System: Exploring DelphiÆs Closed-Tools API
Delphi IDE integration for rocket scientists? Dave Jewell has been tinkering in DelphiÆs innards again and this month shows us how to get to the bits of the Delphi IDE that Borland didn't want to tell you about, spilling the beans on the LibIntf unit and what it can do for you. If you have some neat ideas for Delphi IDE wizards or experts, then this is article is for you!Here Comes The Flood
Julian Bucknall got fed up with TFileStream being slow with lots of small data chunks so he set to and wrote a replacement go-faster version with efficient bufferingUnder Construction: Website Indexing, Part 1
Would you like to include a search facility on your website? Bob Swart begins a 2-part series describing how to do exactly that in Delphi. Even if you arenÆt into website building, the techniques are really useful for non-web applications too!Surviving Client/Server: Indexing Freeform Text
Ok, so you have loads of information in your databases and some snazz client/server apps to work with it, but then some troublesome user comes along and wants a free text search capability... Steve Troxell comes to the rescue in this monthÆs column, showing how to do what you wouldnÆt believe is possible in SQL!Get On The Web With Delphi 3
John O'Connell presents the concluding part of his discussion of ôeverything you need to know about writing web applications with Delphi 3 (but didn't know you needed to ask)öDelphi Meets COM: Part 2
Dave Jewell has the second part of his EditorÆs guide (read ôidiotÆs guideö!) to writing COM applications in Delphi, laying some more flesh on last monthÆs introductory bonesOne Last Compile...
Delphi and the art of hard disk maintenanceThe Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems: MS SQL Server connections, formatting numbers, typecasting, destructors explained, form creation and more...
Wot, No Tips & Tricks?!
WhereÆs the Tips & Tricks column gone then? WeÆve decided to try something fresh, and from next month weÆll have a new regular column by Mike Orriss, our Tips & Tricks Editor, entitled MikeÆs Corner. Mike will still be writing about useful hints and helps, from his own experience and from you, the reader! Plus, thereÆll be technical news (eg bugs found and fixed), information on maintenance updates and patches for to your favourite Delphi add-ons and MikeÆs own comment on the Delphi world. Input and ideas are welcome, email Mike at mjo@compuserve.com