Cantu M. Marco Cantu's Essential Delphi: A Friendly Introductory Guide to Borland Delphi

Marco Cantu, 2002. - 156 pages.Delphi pioneered the era of rapid application development by introducing critical features like application framework and visual window layout designer that drastically reduced application prototyping times.Delphi uses the Pascal-based programming language called Object Pascal, and compiles Delphi source code into native x86 code. They include the VCL (Visual Component Library), support for COM independent interfaces with reference counted class implementations, and support for a large number of third-party components. Interface implementations can be delegated to fields or properties of classes. Message handlers are implemented by tagging a method of a class with the integer constant of the message to handle.A strong emphasis is placed on database connectivity and Delphi offers a rich database component set. The Visual Component Library (VCL) contains a large library of database aware controls, and database access components.More recent versions have including upgraded and enhanced Runtime Library routines provided by the community group FastCode.