Delphi -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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Embedding Prolog in Visual Basic & Delphi
Michael McHale / Paperback / Expected December 2001
Price: $49.95 Not Yet Published

Tomes of Delphi : Win 32 Graphics Programming
Larry Rutledge / Paperback / Expected August 2000
Price: $42.46 - Savings of: $7.49 (15%) Not Yet Published
Tomes of Delphi: Win32 Graphics Programming is a complete reference to the many graphics file formats used in the Delphi development environment. A distinctive feature of this book is that Rutledge provides detailed comment about the file formats so that the developer understands how and why the code works the way it does under Delphi.

Tomes of Delphi: Win32 Core API
John Ayres / Paperback / Expected July 2000
Price: $50.96 - Savings of: $8.99 (15%) Not Yet Published
The Tomes of Delphi series from John Ayres is recognized as the definitive reference for Delphi programmers and developers. The first edition received rave reviews from industry publications as well as Inprise developers as being the "Rosetta stone which forms the link between Delphi and the Windows API." The title retains its popular reference organization as well as the innovative help file on the CD. This new edition, updated for Windows 2000, continues the tradition of being the most accessible and definitive reference to 32-bit versions of Delphi and includes new material on printing and ...

Tomes of Delphi: Win32 Shell API
John Ayres / Paperback / Expected July 2000
Price: $50.96 - Savings of: $8.99 (15%) Not Yet Published
The Tomes of Delphi series from John Ayres is recognized as the definitive reference for Delphi programmers and developers. The first edition received rave reviews from industry publications as well as Inprise developers as being the "Rosetta stone which forms the link between Delphi and the Windows API. The new title retains its reference organization, and distinctive help file on the CD, as well as including Windows 2000 changes.

Tomes of Delphi : Win32 Multimedia API
Alan C. Moore / Paperback / Expected July 2000
Price: $59.95 Not Yet Published
"Tomes of Delphi: Win32 Multimedia" is a comprehensive treatment of the Win32 programmers and developers. The title focuses much attention on the sound portion of the Win32 API.

Recent

Delphi in a Nutshell
Ray Lischner / Paperback / Published March 2000
Price: $17.47 - Savings of: $7.48 (30%) - Ships in 24 hours

Essential Skills with Delphi 5
Andrew Santos / Paperback / Published January 2000
Price: $17.60 - Savings of: $4.40 (20%) - Ships in 2-3 days

Delphi COM Programming (MTP OTHER)
Eric Harmon / Paperback / Published January 2000
Price: $36.99 - Savings of: $8.01 (18%) - Ships in 24 hours
Microsoft COM is prevalent throughout Windows operating systems--95, 98, NT. To build applications which interface with Windows systems, therefore, programmers must understand and learn to use COM. This book will lay the groundwork for understanding COM, and focus on how to develop applications in Delphi which interact efficiently with Windows systems. The book will include coverage of DCOM, Microsoft's distributed architecture which is based on COM. It will also cover the latest developments in Delphi 5, currently due out in September 1999.This book will teach COM programming to Delphi 4 and ...

Delphi 5 Developer's Guide (Developer's Guide)
Steve Teixeira, et al / Paperback / Published December 1999
Price: $41.99 - Savings of: $18.00 (30%) - Ships in 24 hours
Weighing in at over 1,500 pages, Delphi 5 Developer's Guide updates a classic text on Delphi programming with a new edition that highlights the latest and greatest in version 5. Whether you are new to Delphi or a seasoned veteran, this book will help you get the most out of this powerful development tool, including database, Internet, and thin-client computing.

Mastering Delphi 5
Marco Cantu / Paperback / Published October 1999
Price: $34.99 - Savings of: $15.00 (30%) - Ships in 24 hours
Marco Cantu's Mastering Delphi 5 revises this author's earlier title and brings it up to speed for the latest and greatest in Delphi 5. Weighing in at a whopping 1,100 pages, this comprehensive, thorough, and skillfully written book makes the strong claim that it is the most comprehensive resource available for Delphi 5. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, this text offers exemplary coverage of this powerful programming tool.

Tomes of Delphi : Win32 Database Developer's Guide
Warren Rachele / Paperback / Published August 1999
Price: $31.96 - Savings of: $7.99 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
Another title in the successful Wordware Tomes series targeted for advanced Delphi programmers and developers that provides state-of-the-art coverage of Delphi as a database development tool.

Delphi Developer's Guide to OpenGL
Jon Q. Jacobs / Paperback / Published August 1999
Price: $39.96 - Savings of: $9.99 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
The Delphi Developer's Guide to OpenGL gives an outline of OpenGL--once a proprietary graphics library that used to reside only on expensive workstations--and explains its capabilities, including how to use it inside Borland's popular programming language, Delphi.

Developer's Guide to Delphi Troubleshooting
Clay Shannon / Paperback / Published November 1998
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A comprehensive reference to error messages in the Delphi development environment, with an emphasis on design-time errors, compile-time errors, and run-time errors. The CD-ROM includes the entire book in electronic form for easy reference.

Charlie Calvert's Delphi 4 Unleashed (Unleashed)
Charles Calvert, Charlie Calvert / Paperback / Published November 1998
Price: $39.99 - Savings of: $10.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
Charlie Calvert's Delphi 4 Unleashed is an all-new edition written by one of the most well-known developers in the Delphi community. This advanced reference will provide programmers with the information they need to build high-end Delphi applications and components compatible with ActiveX and Java. Calvert will bring the newest technologies and features of Delphi into focus and show programmers how to utilize them. Some features will include: - Building and integrating components with Java, Active X, etc. - Internet and Intranet applications and enabling - Delphi's Multi-tier Distributed Appli...

Discover Delphi : Programming Principles Explained (International Computer Science Series)
Shirley Williams(Preface), Sue Walmsley (Preface) / Paperback / Published November 1998
Price: $51.15 - Ships in 24 hours
Suitable both for beginners and more experienced programmers, Discover Delphi provides a complete and user-friendly introduction to programming with this accessible, prize-winning language. Supported by a wealth of screen shots, examples, quizzes and exercises, the book harnesses the unique nature of Delphi to enable the reader to acquire fundamental programming skills while learning to design and produce attractive Graphical User Interfaces (GUls).

Delphi 4 Bible
Tom Swan / Paperback / Published August 1998
Price: $39.99 - Savings of: $10.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
If you appreciate hands-on examples in your programming books, consider this guide. Delphi 4 Bible combines a solid tour of basic Delphi programming with excellent material on more advanced language features available in Delphi 4. This text stresses traditional client/server programming using Delphi's classic strengths for corporate database development.

Delphi 4 Developer's Guide (Developer's Guide Series)
Xavier Pacheco, Steve Teixeira / Paperback / Published August 1998
Price: $47.99 - Savings of: $12.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
This authoritative and comprehensive title covers the basics of Delphi programming in depth, while demonstrating why Delphi 4 is even more powerful than its predecessors. The text begins with a tour of Delphi 4 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 co...

Ready-To-Run Delphi 3.0 Algorithms
Rod Stephens, Kenneth R. Stephens / Paperback / Published August 1998
Price: $49.99 - Ships in 24 hours
Modeled on the author's popular "Visual Basic Algorithms", this is being promoted as the first algorithm handbook devoted exclusive to Delphi programmers. In the book and on the accompanying CD-ROM, Stephens guides readers toward faster and more usable programs employing Delphi algorithms. The CD contains all source code and databases for use with the network algorithms chapter.

Sams Teach Yourself Borland Delphi 4 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself...)
Kent Reisdorph / Paperback / Published June 1998
Price: $31.99 - Savings of: $8.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
This title brings the popular three-week tutorial format to aspiring Delphi 4 programmers, combining plenty of hands-on knowledge of the most essential features of Delphi 4, including its strong database capabilities. This book is a good choice for the beginner or intermediate programmer who wants to get a solid foundation in Delphi 4 development in a minimal amount of time.

Toolkit for Delphi : A Collection of Components, Utilities, and Documentation for Borland's Programming Language
Hardcover / Published March 1998
Price: $39.95 Special Order

The Tomes of Delphi 3 : Win32 Graphical Api
John Ayres, et al / Paperback / Published March 1998
Price: $46.71 - Savings of: $8.24 (15%) - Ships in 24 hours
A comprehensive reference to all of the Win 32 API function calls used to display graphics and user interface elements, this book highlights such topics as drawing primitives, color palette management, regions, and paths. The highly innovative InstallShield and DemoShield software are included on the CD-ROM. .

Collaborative Computing With Delphi 3
James Callan / Paperback / Published March 1998
Price: $59.95 - Ships in 24 hours
Callan delivers an advanced book for experienced Delphi programmers and developers with an especially strong focus on the concept of "scaling"-- the process of upscaling software applications from the desktop to the client/server environment.

Nathan Wallace's Delphi 3 Example Book (Programmer's Example Series)
Nathan Wallace / Paperback / Published March 1998
Price: $54.95 - Ships in 24 hours
Another addition to the highly successful Programmer's Example series, Wallace's title provides a programming reference to Borland's Delphi development environment, one of the most popular software development tools currently on the market. The title provides comprehensive coverage of the compiler and specific examples of programming code as well as unique abilities and shareware on the CD.

Delphi 3 : User Interface Design
Warren Kovach, Ludovic Dubois / Paperback / Published March 1998
Price: $49.95 - Ships in 24 hours
Developing a state-of-the-art user interface isn't easy: programmers are called upon to understand what the user "expects" from software, and account for every eventuality, from the PC's design to an individual user's idiosyncrasy. This book shows exactly how to build top-notch user interfaces with the top-notch Delphi development tool for Windows.Using extensive examples, this book shows how to program virtually every user interface element in Delphi, focusing on techniques for giving programs a modern look. Among the topics covered are: status bars, dockable toolbars, multipage dialog boxes,...

Essential Delphi 3 Fast : Includes Activex Development (Essential Series (Springer-Verlag))
John Cowell / Paperback / Published January 1998
Price: $29.95 - Ships in 24 hours
Delphi '97 is the latest version of the highly successful object-oriented, visual programming environment for Windows 95 from Borland. Designed to get the user up and running fast when developing new and effective Windows applications, Essential Delphi '97 Fast covers all the new, key features of Delphi, making it an excellent reference for visual programmers.

Learn Graphics File Programming With Delphi 3
Derek A. Benner / Paperback / Published December 1997
Price: $49.95 Special Order
graphics file types and presents ObjectPascal source code to implement read/write modules for each format, as well as sample viewer application to serve as a framework. The accompanying CD contains all source code, sample images in each of the file types, and several shareware/freeware image manipulation applications.

The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Core Api
John Ayres, et al / Paperback / Published December 1997
Price: $43.96 - Savings of: $10.99 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
The authors provide software developers a comprehensive guide to the Microsoft Windows application programming interface, the heart of Windows software development. This reference covers all of the most common Windows API functions, and each function has the syntax and an example of its use in Delphi's Object Pascal. The CD includes all of the code from the book.

Developing Client/Server Applications With Delphi/Book and Cd-Rom
Bill Todd, Vince Kellen / Unknown Binding / Published December 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Delphi Developer's Handbook
Marco Cantu, et al / Paperback / Published November 1997
Price: $39.99 - Savings of: $10.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
Delphi Developer's Handbook lets programmers master the Delphi 95 language, making professional client/server programming and Rapid Application Development accessible to every reader who needs to master these skills. The CD includes the full source code and compiled executables of all of the examples in the book.

Visual Object-Oriented Programming Using Delphi (with CD-ROM)
Richard Wiener, Claude A. Wiatrowski / Paperback / Published November 1997
Price: $49.95 - Ships in 24 hours
A book/CD-ROM package for programmers and software developers, emphasizing object-oriented features of Delphi through case studies and many examples. Coverage includes basic principles, the Delphi visual object-oriented system, and specialized aspects of Windows programming, with a case study of a solitaire game. The CD-ROM contains source code and compiled versions of examples. -- Copyright 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved

High Performance Delphi 3 Programming
Don Taylor(Editor), et al / Paperback / Published August 1997
Price: $49.99 - Ships in 2-3 days
Ready to make the most out of Delphi 3, the latest version of Borland's rapid application development tool? High Performance Delphi 3 Programming has the information you need: it's packed with detailed instructions on how to push Delphi to the limit. The book shows how to build DLLs (dynamic-link libraries), implement drag and drop, work with the Delphi Winsock component, and much more. What's particularly impressive is that Don Taylor and his coauthors don't just offer a rapid-fire listing of techniques and leave you to worry about the details. Instead, they delve into the reasons you'd want ...

Programming in Delphi
Rick Kitto / Spiral-bound / Published August 1997
Price: $19.99 Special Order

Client/Server Developer's Guide With Delphi 3
Ken Henderson / Paperback / Published August 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Client/Server Developer's Guide with Delphi 3 takes an authoritative, real-world approach to learning database design and creating full-featured client/server applications. Focusing on the more advanced features and topics, this guide makes you a proficient Delphi developer. Written by an industry expert, it helps you fully understand this powerful development environment and use it advantageously. With tips, techniques, and practical examples, this resource delivers the information you need to improve your skills, expand your knowledge, and achieve optimum results. Learn the concepts to: mast...

Hidden Paths of Delphi 3 : Experts, Wizards and the Open Tools Api
Ray Lischner, et al / Paperback / Published July 1997
Price: $33.99 - Savings of: $6.00 (15%) - Ships in 2-3 days
You can find a table of contents and other information about Delphi's Open Tools API at http://www.tempest-sw.com/.

Developing Custom Delphi 3 Components (Visual Developer Magazine)
Ray Konopka / Unknown Binding / Published May 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Writing software is no longer about building monolithic, do-it-all applications: high-output programmers know the benefits they can derive from using others' objects and, to an even greater extent, creating their own reusable components. Developing Custom Delphi 3 Components is a comprehensive how-to manual for Delphi 3 programmers who want to build robust components that they--or other programmers--can reuse time and again. Konopka builds up to this task by explaining Delphi's object model and giving an overview of the component building process; although the book assumes a fair amount of fam...

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