Robert Meek has written a book review about my Delphi 2009 Development
Essentials, which is sold as paperback from Lulu.com, or offered as free
bonus for anyone who purchases Delphi or one or more courseware manuals in
PDF format from me.
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Professional XML Web Services isn't really an XML book, but more a pure Web
services book. The XML part is because XML is used to represent Web services
(in the WSDL, for example). The book covers many types of Web services, not
just XML Web services (a term that's like a binary executable).
The book consists of 15 chapters. That's not much, if you take into account
that it was written by 12 authors. In fact, no author has written more than
two chapters. I must admit that my feelings about the result are mixed. Some
chapters flow really well and are clear to read, but others take ... (more)
For those of you who haven't seen it before, I've written a series of
articles for the electronic Bitwise Magazine on Enterprise Core Objects II
(with as main example this ASP.NET weblog application that you're currently
looking at). Since the release of Delphi 2006, I've been working with
Enterprise Core Objects III, the successor of ECO II, and I've been migrating
(or more rebuilding) my weblog application using some of the new ECO III
features.
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You can now download the CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 Trial with Delphi Prism ISO
(at 1.4 GB), and request a trial key, in order to install a 14-day trial
edition of the Delphi Prism portion of RAD Studio 2009 (or, if you already
have a real key for RAD Studio 2009 or Delphi Prism 2009, you can use that
key to install the full non-expiring version of Delphi Prism).
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When migrating existing source code from previous versions of Delphi to
Delphi 2009, you may encounter warnings about implicit conversions from
AnsiString to Unicode Strings or vice versa (the other way may also have a
potential data loss) and while it's easy to ignore these warnings, ignorance
comes with a price!
The particular real-world example I want to talk about in this post comes
from a third-party library (who shall remain nameless) compatible with
different versions of Delphi, including Delphi 2009. When I migrated my
project from Delphi 2007 to Delphi 2009, the resultin... (more)