Delphi for .NET Developer’s Guide
By Xavier Pacheco
ISBN 0-672-32443-1
Published by Sams
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Summary of the Book
Borland Delphi will embrace and generate programs for Microsoft’s .NET Framework. Until now, this was a technology not available to Delphi developers using Borland’s tools. This book will bridge that gap by providing the expert knowledge of both Delphi and. NET with the same, practicable and real-world solutions approach used in previous Delphi Developer’s Guides. Delphi for .NET Developer’s Guide is a new edition of the #1 Delphi book by authors Xavier Pacheco and Steve Teixeira. Steve and Xavier are of the winners of the Delphi Informant Reader’s Choice Award for their three previous editions of the book. This newest edition is completely updated for Delphi using the .NET Framework and includes in-depth coverage on Borland’s new CLX architecture, DBExpress Applications, SOAP, CORBA, WebSnap and BizSnap features. It continues as a complete reference and authoritative guide to the newest version of Delphi. Additional topics covered include The .NET Framework; Programs, Units, and Namespaces;.NET Security Custom WinForms Controls; Memory Management and Garbage Collection; COM and COM+ Interoperability; ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Web Services
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I – Introduction to the .NET Framework
1 Introduction to .NET
2 Overview of the .NET Framework
Part II – Delphi for .NET Programming Language
3 Introduction to Delphi for .NET and the New IDE
4 Programs, Units, and Namespaces
5 The Delphi Language (Steve Teixeira)
Part III – The .NET Framework Class Library Development
6 Assemblies – Libraries and Packages (Steve Teixeira)
7 GDI+ Programming – Drawing in .NET
8 Mono – A Cross Platform .NET Project (Steven Beebe)
9 Memory Management and Garbage Collection
10 Collections
11 Working with the String and StringBuilder Classes
12 File and Streaming Operations
13 Developing Custom WinForms Controls (Steve Teixeira)
14 Threading in Delphi for .NET (Rick Ross)
15 Reflection API
16 Interoperability – COM Interopt and the Platform Invocation Service (Brian Long)
Part IV – Database Development with ADO.NET
17 Overview of ADO.NET
18 Using the Connection Object
19 Using Command and DataReader Objects
20 DataAdapters and DataSets
21 Working with WinForms – DataViews and Data Binding
22 Saving Data to the Data Source
23 Working with Transactions and Strongly-Typed Datasets
24 The Borland Data Provider
Part V – Internet Development with ASP.NET
25 ASP.NET Fundamentals
26 Building ASP.NET Web Pages
27 Building Database Driven ASP.NET Applications
28 Building Web Services
29 .NET Remoting and Delphi
30 .NET Remoting in Action (Alessandro Federici)
31 Securing ASP.NET Applications
32 ASP.NET Deployment and Configuration
33 Caching and Managing State in ASP.NET Applications
34 Developing Custom ASP.NET Server Controls (Nick Hodges)
Index