Delphi 2010 Handbook
The guide to what's new in Delphi 2010
From the best-selling author of the Mastering Delphi series and the Delphi 2007 and 2009 Handbooks
Author: Marco Cantù
Publisher: Marco Cantù
ISBN: 1450597262 (EAN-13: 9781450597265)
Pages: 318.
Ebook Release Date: Feb 21st, 2010
Printed Book: End of February 2010
The Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Better IDE
- Installation
- Proxy Configuration
- Installation Folders
- First Impressions
- IDE Insight
- Filter Wild Cards
- Advanced: Customizing IDE Insight
- The Delphi 2010 Editor
- The Search Pane
- Searching with Directory Groups
- The Code Formatter
- Live Templates and Code Completion
- The Project Manager
- Build All and Active Project
- The Object Inspector
- The Description Pane
- The Component Editor Pane
- Other IDE Features
- Background Compilation
- The Return of the Component Toolbar
- Many More Recent Files
- Use Unit Dialog
- Updates to the Gallery
- View Messages
- What's Next
Chapter 2: The Debugger
- Dragging the Instruction Pointer
- Small UI Changes
- Debugging Threads
- Debugger Visualizers
- Advanced: Visualizer Internals
- Building a Value Replacer for UCS4Char
- What's Next
Chapter 3: Extended RTTI and Attributes
- Extended RTTI
- A First Example
- Compiler Generated Information
- Larger Executable Files
- The Rtti Unit
- Rtti Objects Lifetime Management and the TRttiContext record
- A Tree of Classes (and Class Information)
- RTTI for Packages
- The TValue Structure
- Reading a Property with TValue
- Invoking Methods
- Low-Level TValue
- Custom Attributes
- What is an Attribute?
- Attribute Classes and Attribute Declarations
- Browsing Attributes
- RTTI Case Studies
- Attributes for ID and Description
- XML Streaming
- What's Next
Chapter 4: More on the Compiler and the RTL
- New Compiler Features
- Version
- Extracting Objects from Interface References
- Class Constructors (and Destructors)
- Delayed Loading of DLL Functions
- Scoped Enumerators
- The With Statement Now Preserves Read Only Properties
- New Run Time Library Features
- RTL Trends
- Browsing Existing Units
- Collections and Containers
- Discovering New Units
- The Input/Output Utilities Unit
- Extracting Subfolders
- Searching Files
- Filtering Sub-folders
- Filtering Files
- What's Next
Chapter 5: The VCL and Windows 7
- Tech Overview of Windows 7
- Delphi Support for Windows Vista
- Notable Differences Between Vista and Windows 7
- Delphi 2010 Windows API Units
- New API Header Units
- Extended Windows API Headers
- Windows 7 Support
- Working with Taskbar Buttons in Windows 7
- Working with Libraries
- DirectX for Forms
- Direct2D
- Gradients to the Max (With no Canvas)
- DirectWrite
- Using the Windows Imaging Component
- WIC Transformations
- Other New VCL Features
- Property Editors for Actions and Dates
- Input Language and Language Libraries
- Minor Incompatibilities with “Growing” Enumerations
- What's Next
Chapter 6: Touch and Gestures
- From Single Touch to Multi-Touch
- Touch Hardware
- Multi-Touch Pads
- The Theory Behind Gestures
- Towards a Touch-Based UI
- The Gesture Manager of the VCL
- A Basic Gesture Example
- The Standard Gestures
- Gestures and Actions
- Custom Gestures
- Database Gestures
- Touch Keyboard
- Multi-Touch Support
- Handling wm_Touch
- Chris Bensen's TouchMove Demo
- Inertia Manipulation (with no Touch)
- What's Next
Chapter 7: Database Access and DataSnap
- New Field Types and Other Core Database Extensions
- Themes Support and Other DBGrid Extensions
- DBGrid In-place Editor Issues
- Midas DLL Now With Source
- ADO 2.8 Support
- dbExpress in Delphi 2010
- The Firebird Driver
- Updated dbExpress Drivers: Interbase, MySQL, Oracle
- The SQL Server Driver
- DataSnap Updates
- Overview of DataSnap in Delphi 2009
- Overview of DataSnap in Delphi 2010
- DataSnap over HTTP
- A DataSnap HTTP Server with the Wizard
- Testing the Connection in Data Explorer
- HTTP Authentication
- DataSnap WebBroker Integration
- Overview of the WebBroker Architecture
- The DataSnap WebBroker Wizard
- A Client for the Web Server
- Filtering Connections
- Using ZlibCompression
- Creating Custom Filters
- JSON and Object Marshaling
- Introducing JSON
- JSON in Delphi 2010
- Parsing JSON
- Streaming Objects to JSON
- Using JSON Converters and Reverters
- JSON Values and Marshaling in DataSnap Server Methods
- Server Methods Callbacks
- The Server Side Implementation of a Callback
- The Client Side Implementation of a Callback
- What's Next
Chapter 8: REST Web Services
- Why Web Services?
- Web Service Technologies: SOAP vs. REST
- XML and SOAP Updates
- XML Processing in Delphi 2010
- SOAP 1.2 Support
- What is REST?
- REST Architecture's Key Points
- The REST Architecture and Delphi
- REST Clients Written in Delphi
- A REST Client for RSS Feeds
- Of Maps and Locations
- Google Translate API
- Building a REST Server
- An Echo Action
- Returning the XML Data of a ClientDataSet
- Returning a List of Customers
- Building a DataSnap REST Server
- Accessing the REST Server with a Browser
- Returning Multiple Results
- Calling the REST Server from a VCL Client
- Calling the REST Server From a jQuery Client
- Returning and Updating Objects with REST HTTP Methods
- Listing Objects with a TJSONArray
- Sending the List to the jQuery Web Client at Start-up
- HTTP Methods: POST, PUT, and DELETE
- Building a Database Oriented REST Server
- REST Server Alternatives
- What's Next
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