Hi,

My name is Freddy Biets and i'm working as a software developper for more than 13 years now. A few years ago, i discovered Delphi (version 2 at that time). A friend of mine showed me how easy it was to develop windows-applications. The company i was working for at that time was just looking for a new and good development-tool to make and deploy windows-applications. We had been experiencing with Microsoft's Visual Basic and at first we thought Delphi look a lot like it (you see from where i'm comming). After doing some serious testing we soon found out that Delphi-applications were faster, more reliable and using much less resources.

After writing some 'first applications' and asking around we decided that delphi was the development tool for us, so we started using it for the real stuff. At a short time we were able to make professional applications.

Now at my own spare time i started to experiment some more. The part of making components has my special intrest. My first component i made was a little TLabel-descendant whose color changed when you moved the mouse over it. Now i knew that the limits of Delphi were further away then i could ever get, but i knew that great things could be done making usefull components.

The first real component i made was the BFC-FileCheck component and was released (freeware) as a stand-alone component (version 1.0). Later on new components were added and i decided to release them in one package called BFC (Biets Freddy Components). The components are still released as freeware but without source. Sourcecode is available upon registration.