Contents
Issue 17, January 1997

• News
  Updates and product information

• Multi-Threaded Database Access With Delphi 2.0
  Neil McClements show how to use threads to good effect in your 32-bit database applications

• One Last Compile...
  Blazing a trail on the electronic frontier

• Developing Dynamic Web Pages
  This month Steve Troxell describes how to add database support to your Web apps, using TDMAid Online, our own Web-based Article Index Database

• Book Review: Secrets of Delphi 2
  Dave Jewell reviews Ray LischnerÆs book on ôExposing Undocumented Features of Delphiö

• Under Construction: TRuleBase Component
  Bob SwartÆs returns to the theme of knowledge-based systems, developing rulebase and factbase components with supporting property and component editors too

• Beating The System: Code Generation Part 2
  Dave Jewell has more insights into DelphiÆs code generator, including how try-finally blocks work, exception handling and nested procedures, with a summary of hints for slimmer code

• Sharing Data With The Win32 API
  John Chaytor creates Delphi classes to make data sharing between applications easier, with a full explanation of the API goodies that make it all possible

• Surviving Client/Server: Managing User Logins, Part 2
  Steve Troxell continues developing his login manager, this month adding support for tracking unsuccessful logins and password management

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems, including: an in-depth examination of the causes of Paradox table corruption (with suggested fixes), tips on debugging DLLs, manufacturing unique table keys and the so-called millennium bug

• Tips & Tricks
  Hints and helps from readers, including: a bit manipulation class, adding version information to .EXEs and .DLLs, making MDI Windows with 3D borders and a file finder function which searches all drives

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