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Delphi in a Nutshell
by Lischner, Ray

Publisher: Wordware Publishing inc.  Buy it Now!
ISBN: 1565926595
Format: Paperback, 576pp

Ray Lischner is well-known in the Delphi community as an author and speaker. He wrote Secrets of Delphi 2, Hidden Paths of Delphi3, and numerous articles for Delphi Informant, Dr. Dobb's Journal and other magazines. His conference appearances include the annual Borland/Inprise conference, and he has spoken to Delphi users groups across the country.

Delphi in a Nutshell is an effective desktop reference to Delphi. Besides listing all core classes and methods, this book also provides a host of expert dos and don'ts for mastering the newest features in Delphi's Object Pascal. Every property, method and event in almost every component, major object, and application is given a full explanation and a syntax example. It does not waste time covering basic Pascal syntax, nor does it redundantly cover visual program creation.

Delphi in a Nutshell covers the following topics: Overview of Delphi Object Pascal, units and libraries, data and string types, exception handling, file I/O, classes and objects, inheritance, constructors and destructors, interfaces, reference counting, Windows messages, memory management strategies, virtual method tables (VMTs), properties, using TypInfo, virtual and dynamic methods, automated methods and COM, Delphi type information and RTTI, concurrent programming with threads, synchronization, thread local storage techniques, Delphi language reference, system constants, operator reference, compiler directives, code samples, and programming tips.

Think of "Delphi in a Nutshell" as a must-have manual on the Delphi programming that blends a complete overview of the subject with the kind of nuts and bolts information that every programmer, regardless of skill level, needs available every single day!