Delphi Programming Quickies Contest
| Do you have some Delphi code you want to share? Are you interested in winning a prize for your work? |
Yet another chance to be rewarded for your knowledge by About Delphi Programming!
It's simple, it's easy, it's the Delphi Quickies Contest! Join now to win prizes by sharing your expertise in Delphi programming.Here's how you enter the contest:
- Read the article submission guidelines.
- Read the Official Contest Rules.
- Write an article (tip, tutorial) about any aspect of programming with Delphi.
- Submit your article.
- And, of course, expect to get rewarded!
About SPONSORS and PRIZES
Here are the sponsors (with prizes) that have joined our contest and are supporting it by providing registered copies of their Delphi tools and components to contest winners!
Apply to be a sponsor!
| Steema Software | |
| teeChart Pro VCL v7 (399 $) - offers hundreds of Graph styles in 2D and 3D, 40 mathematical and statistical Functions for you to choose from together with an unlimited number of axes and 22 Palette components. |
| Kassl tools |
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DWinLock (69 EUR) - dWinlock is an easy to use Delphi component for software developers to limit the access to Windows |
| Eurekalog | |
| Eurekalog (99 $) - an add-in tool that gives to your application (GUI, Console, Web, etc.) the ability to catch every exception (even those raised by memory leaks) and generates a detailed log of call stack (with unit, class, method and line #), showing and sending it back to you via email. |
| Greatis software | |
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Runtime Fusion (89.95 $) - Form Designer Pro & Object Inspector Pro. These components allow you to change anything in your application at runtime: Form Designer Pro can move and resize any control on the form, and Object
Inspector Pro can change any property of any component in your application. Print Suite (39.95 $) - set of components which provides advanced print and print preview features into Delphi and C++ Builder applications. |
| Max's components | |
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TmxOutlookBarPro (70 EUR) - 100% native mxOutlookBarPro sidebar component. Help Author Pro - this product is complete help authoring tool to create the most popular help formats. All output files can be generated automatically from only one single source file without any additional modification. |
| TMS Software | |
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TAdvStringGrid (60 $) - feature packed grid component. TMS IntraWeb Component pack (50 $) - feature rich components for RAD web application developement with IntraWeb |
| microOLAP | |
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EasyMap VCL (69.95 $) - Delphi/C++Builder components set for creating your own GIS-related solutions without MapInfo, MapX, MapObjects, WinGIS and so on. MyISQL (39.95 $) - Interactive SQL for MySQL is a database administration solution for managing MySQL databases. pgISQL (49.95 $) - Interactive SQL for PostgreSQL is a database administration solution for managing PostgreSQL databases. DAC for MySQL (59.95 $) - This components set allows to create Delphi/C++Builder applications with direct access to MySQL DB without BDE and ODBC. ASADAC (99.95 $) - Sybase SQL Anywhere BDE replacement for Delphi/C++Builder. ASADAC allows to create Delphi/C++Builder applications with direct access to Sybase ASA (SQL Anywhere) DB without BDE and ODBC. |
| EldoS Corporation | |
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MsgConnect (149 $) - a cross-platform network message queue library. Encapsulates low-level transport protocols and provides uniform API for exchanging binary messages across network in peer-to-peer and client-server applications.
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Quick info: Quick way to win a prize: Quick info on awards:
Round #2
Catalin Ionescu's Sending messages to non-windowed applications
It's all about sharing code with other Delphi developers - a great way to not only help others, but also to help yourself in becoming a better programmer.
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Every time you submit your code (article, tutorial, tip,...) to the About Delphi Programming site, you raise your chances in being selected as a winner for each contest round!
In each round one Delphi developer will be selected to get rewarded with a registered copy of a Delphi tool or VCL component donated from the Contest sponsors. Winners will be announced in our free weekly newsletter, make sure you have subscribed.
Winners...
Check out the (current) winners and their articles:
Round #1
George Merriman's Adding Regular Expression Filename Filtering to ShellListView
How to add regular expression (filename) filtering to the Delphi file explorer application.
Prize: Help Author Pro (Max's Components)
Vegan Vikar's Professional Looking Grids with Custom Drawing
Using custom drawing to make your grids look as nice as the expensive third party suites. Three main topics are presented: how to fix-up the column headers, how to add clickable buttons and checkboxes inside cells and how to simulate merged cells.
Prize: TAdvStringGrid (TMS Software)
Learn how to send messages (signals) to non-windowed applications by using AllocateHWND and DefWindowProc. In this article we also briefly describe what Delphi does in the background to intercept Windows messages, how can we write our own message handler for a windowed application and how to obtain a unique message identifier that we can safely use in our applications. We'll also discover and fix a small bug in the Delphi DeallocateHWND procedure along the route.
Prize: MsgConnect (Eldos Corporation)
