The Delphi 5 Developer's Guide is a complete reference showing developers what they need to know most about Delphi 5. The text begins with a tour of Delphi 5 basics, including improvements since version 1. After observing object-oriented Pascal programming, including advanced language features, the authors turn to the strengths of using the Visual Component Library (VCL) application frameworks. They include several invaluable sections for corporate developers, including a "coding standards" document. Sections on combining VCL with ActiveX controls round out the basic tour. Advanced topics include graphics programming, building dynamic link-libraries (DLLs), printing, and multithreading.

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Good Information, but the usage of the CD drove me crazy - 2002-01-15
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This book had a lot of useful information, but the formatting and the usage of the companion CD drove me crazy. Here is and example: I'm reading along and I finish chapter 5 only to find chapter 6, 7, and 8 are on the companion CD. For now I skip them, and go on to chapter 9. When I'm finished with that I find that chapter 10 is on the companion CD and it has all of the coverage on printing (one of the subjects I need), so I open the CD and start reading chapter 10. This is something like 54 pages, and it has some good subject matter. I decide to print a couple of the pages only to find that they have their security setting set so you can't print ANY of the book chapters (or highlight, so you can't copy and paste items). In all, the companion CD contains 447 pages of non-printable text from random parts of the book. If any subject interests you all you can do is write a note as to the page number and location on the CD, nothing else is allowed. I found it very hard to read an electronic page or two and then try an example and keep on flipping back and forth electronically. If this doesn't bother you then this may just be the book for you. I felt the information was good, but a book that can't be put on paper isn't for me.

Some parts are ok. - 2001-07-01
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I found this to be a fairly useful book. I usually refer to it AFTER I have looked at Mastering Delphi 5 by Marco Cantu. Probably the most useful thing that I found was not in the book at all. It was on the included CD...Chapter 8 of the PDF document has a section on Raster/Vector fonts that I found VERY useful.

Not bad at all - 2001-06-20
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I just got a new programming job based in a Delphi environment. I was trained to work in Java and VB; fortunately the syntax was not too different so I picked up this reference book. I was pleasantly surprised to find that a single reference book made the transition go that smoothly.

Good but - 2003-08-18
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The book is well written, however some chapters are avaliable on CD only with no print permission. I do not like reading books on my computer screen. If you don't like ebooks like me find another book

Love It - 2001-08-15
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Great book for intermediate programmers. Plenty of source code but it's chopped up and difficult to follow. The section on Creating Components was very useful to me. The CD is great, has many undocumented toys on it.

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