Contents
Issue 13, September 1996

• News
  Updates and product information from the world of Delphi development

• Digging Into IDAPI Part 1
  John OÆConnell provides more insights into making direct calls to the BDE to enhance your database applicationsÆ capabilities and performance

• Cascading Exceptions
  Andrew McLellan shows how to use DelphiÆs exception handling to build error handling systems which satisfy the needs of both end users and technical support departments

• Surviving Client/Server: Delphi 2.0 Potpourri
  Continuing his look at Delphi 2.0Æs new database features, this month Steve Troxell rounds off cached updates and covers filters and database dictionaries

• Data Validation Levels
  Bob Swart shows how to build data validation into your applications at input, field, record/table and dialog or application levels.

• Language Extensions: Variants
  Xavier Pacheco explains another of Delphi 2.0Æs new features, describing the strengths and pitfalls of using variant types

• Book Review: Building Internet Applications With Delphi 2
  Bob Swart reviews this new book from Davis Chapman (which is useful for Delphi 1 too by the way!)

• An ôExpertö Expert
  Paul Warren thinks experts are wonderful, so he built an expert to create his own experts!

• Beating The System: The Private Life Of A WinHelp File (Part 2)
  Dave Jewell continues trawling the depths of Windows Help files, this month explaining how their data compression system works

• Under Construction: AddIn Experts
  Delphi 2.0 has a new, fourth, kind of expert and Bob Swart shows how to build your own, and thereÆs even a bug-tracking expert on the free disk!

• Review: InfoPower 2.0
  Mike Orriss puts the new version of this popular database component toolbox through its paces

• One Last Compile...
  A little light relief!

• Book Review: Rapid Development
  Written by Steve McConnell and reviewed by Richard Stevens

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long has more answers to your problems, including OLE, validation, debugging, mouse handling...

• Tips & Tricks
  More hints and helps from readers

• On The Disk
  All the goodies on this monthÆs disk, including Mike OrrissÆ latest collection of tested shareware and freeware