Borland Delphi 5 Developer's Guide: Volume 1: Essentials [With CD-ROM]

by Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672317818
• ISBN13: 9780672317811
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 1556 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book if you it is your first Delphi DevGuide book

I was very dissapointed to see that it is almost the same material as in the older Delphi Developers Guide's. Of course there are new chapters, but the biggest part of the book is just transciption of the older ones...Don't misunderstand me - It IS a great book, but if you already have any one Delphi X Developers Guide you can jump over it...

They have done it again!

Steve and Xavier have done it again. What an impressive piece of work. The new MIDAS and CORBA chapters are the best there is on the subjects. The COM chapters are... (what can I say, Steve implemented most of the COM architecture in Delphi the product). Great Job guys! Steve, X, Dan"Mr.MIDAS" and Lance"Mr.Corba".

Lots of information

This book contains a lot of technical and undocumented information about Delphi programming, the IDE, components, etc. Not written for the novice but it does compliment Marco Cantu's "Mastering Delphi 5". I highly recommend it. Only "drawback" is the chapters on the CD. I certainly understand wanting to keep the physical size of the book down but it does make it hard to read in bed (monitor takes up a lot of room). All kidding aside, you can't go wrong purchasing this title.

No Delphi Guru Wants To Be Without This Bible

Ok, first things First. Click The Buy Button and come back and read this review. You simply cannot go wrong with this book. Previously I had brought Mastering Delphi 3 & 5 and thought they were good (which they are), but sorry Marco, the best delphi book mantle has been past on.Ok, D5 Developer's Guide. What this book doesn't cover isn't worth knowing. A brief contents listing... * History Of Delphi (Interesting Read) * Object Pascal Language Overview (For the newbies) * Win32 API overview (and yes, you do need to deal with the API from time to time) * Coding Standards (I mean, this book even tells you how you should write the code! ) * Using ActiveX Controls * Graphics Programming * DLLs * Printing * Multithreading * Help with Porting your apps to Delphi 5 (And we are only half way through the book) * Writing your own components (400 pages to this alone) * Database Development (Desktop, Client Server, Midas and Corba) (4 Chapters)Over 1500 pages of information. What with this book, the two Tomes Of Delphi, Win32Api references and Mastering Delphi 5, there should be enough information there to make a Guru out of a first year college student. Seriously, I cannot rate this book high enough. Don't worry about it not being worth the money - it is. Every Penny.The only problem with this book is that some of the chapters are on the CDROM (however, they are the ones that you might want to read once in a while) and that you might pull your back picking the book up. (Just remember the correct lifting stance).

This is a great book

I recieved it within one week. I've been a Delphli developer since D1, but since my usual work requires a narrow focus on projects of similar type, I've not been exposed to all the "acronyms of the day". I needed a book that would spell out, in recipe format, HOW to get into MIDAS, and Web enablment. This book reaches it's target audience very well. It catches the developer up on the new syntax available, tells 'beginer' developers where more info is available, and for experienced developers it SPELLS OUT step by step HOW to get MIDAS and Web enablement going. Some of the chapters are written by other authors besides Steve and Xavier, but the format of each chapter is consistent. JOB WELL DONE!As an example, I learned this from the book:D1 Syntax: S := Table1.FieldByName('EmpNo').AsString;D5 Syntax: S := Table1['EmpNo'];I skipped D4 because it was a bag of bugs. I told the Delphi development team not to 'do that again' at BorCon/INPR Conference '99. D5 is a SOLID product Borland can be proud of, and Delphi 5 Developer's Guide is a SOLID BOOK, the authors can be proud of! It's about 8 pounds, not including the chapters that are on the CD only.It also has a beautiful cover and because it's so big, it makes me look real important while I walk around the office reading it. Ha ha ha! Plus I'm actually getting what look like small BICEPTS from holding it up while I read. COOL!BUY THIS BOOK! It's a WINNER!Kev.Hey, BTW, Teixeira, Pacheco, are those Spanish names? Portugese? They sound cool.