Delphi Cookbook, : Recipes to Master Delphi for IoT Integrations, Cross-Platform, Mobile and Server-side Development, 3rd Edition.

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Delphi Cookbook -Third Edition is a comprehensive recipe-based guide which will help you to develop your skills while working with the real business scenarios from the very beginning. This book teaches you to design and develop cross-platform applications, deploy them on the cloud platform, and leverage the extensive toolkit that Delphi provides. Cover Title Page Copyright and Credits Packt Upsell Contributors Dedication Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Delphi Basics Introduction Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... Customizing TDBGrid Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... Using owner-draw combos and listboxes Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... Making an owner-draw control aware of the VCL stylesGetting ready How it works... There's more... Creating a stack of embedded forms Getting ready How it works... There's more... Manipulating JSON Getting ready How to do it... There's more... Manipulating and transforming XML documents Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... I/O in the 21st century -- knowing the streams Getting ready How it works... There's more... Creating a Windows Service Getting ready How it works... There's more... Using the TService.LogMessage method Associating a file extension with your application on WindowsGetting ready How to do it... There's more... Be coherent with the Windows look and feel using TTaskDialog Getting started How it works... There's more... The amazing TFDTable -- indices, aggregations, views, and SQL Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... ETL made easy -- TFDBatchMode Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... Data integration made easy -- TFDLocalSQL Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also Chapter 2: Becoming a Delphi Language NinjaIntroduction Fun with anonymous methods -- using higher-order functions Getting ready How to do it... There's more... Writing enumerable types Getting ready How to do it... There's more... See also Using enumerable types to create new language features Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... RTTI to the rescue - configuring your class at runtime Getting ready How to do it... There's more... See also Duck typing using RTTI Getting ready How to do it... There's more... BOs validation using RTTI attributes Getting readyHow to do it... How it works... There's more... Bonus recipe -- Validation using RTTI attributes See also... Creating helpers for your classes Getting ready How to do it... There's more... Chapter 3: Knowing Your Friends -- The Delphi RTL Introduction Checking strings with regular expressions Getting ready How to do it... There's more... Consuming RESTful services using native HTTP(S) client libraries Getting ready Some HTTP considerations How it works... There's more... THTTPClient's methods which directly map HTTP verbs