Chapter 1. Delphi Basics
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles and no code
- Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime
- Customizing TDBGrid
- Using the owner's draw combos and listboxes
- Creating a stack of embedded forms
- Manipulating JSON
- Manipulating and transforming XML documents
- I/O in the twenty-first century – knowing streams
- Putting your VCL application in the tray
- Creating a Windows service
- Associating a file extension with your application on Windows
Introduction
This chapter explains some of the day-to-day needs of a Delphi programmer. These are ready-to-use recipes that will be useful every day and have been selected ahead of a lot of others because although they may ...
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