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Mastering Delphi 4
by Marco Cantu

Publisher: Sybex, Incorporated  Buy it Now!
ISBN: 0782123503
Format: Paperback, 1247pp.

Mastering Delphi 4 by Marco Cantu is the fourth edition of Mastering Delphi. Marco Cantu is the father of a best-selling series of Delphi books translated worldwide. He is a contributing editor for The Delphi Magazine. His most recent Delphi books are Mastering Delphi 4, and the advanced text, Delphi Developer's Handbook.

The book is divided into five parts: Delphi and Object Pascal, Using Components, Writing Database Applications, Components and Libraries, and Real World Delphi Programming. You'll discover how to effectively use secrets of the Delphi environment and VCL controls provided with Delphi, program with objects, crate MDI applications, write Delphi custom components, explore advanced database access along with client/server database techniques, OLE and COM, and the 3-tier MIDAS architecture. New techniques for creating Internet-enabled applications, server-side web programming and mutexes, and threads are alsocovered in depth. Mastering Delphi 4 will help you build your own applications, from the initial concept to the final project.

This book is just what you need to unlock the power of Borland's most powerful visual development system for Windows.

This book introduces programmers to all of Delphi 4's new features, and more than 100 real-world examples to stretch Delphi 4 to its limits. Unlike other version books, Marco uses tons of new examples and avoids simply providing an updated version of his previous work. Mastering Delphi 4 does not include a CD-ROM, but the source code can be downloaded from the web.

Mastering Delphi 4 is not for people who think they can learn how to program from it. Marco has removed all the basic material from the book, so it is now an advanced-level reference showing intermediate and advanced Delphi programmer what they need to know about Delphi 4.