Contents
Issue 19, March 1997

• News
  Updates and product information

• Book Review: Delphi 2 DevelopersÆ Solutions
  Bob Swart looks at this æhow-toÆ book from Nathan Wallace and Steve Tendon

• C++ Builder For Delphi Users
  Borland hope their newest release will revolutionise C++ development; so is it any good and should we all throw away our copies of Delphi? Brian Long has burned the midnight oil doing an in-depth evaluation for us, with lots of tips for Delphi users who are planning to add it to their development arsenal, a realistic comparison with Delphi present and future and advice on when C++ Builder will be of most use

• Under Construction: A Delphi 2.01 CGI Debugger
  Delphi builds great CGI applications for the internet, now you can easily debug or demo them without a web server using Bob SwartÆs new CGI debugger, built using the NetManage ActiveX controls which come with Delphi 2.01

• Internet Apps With ISAPI
  Steve Troxell demonstrates how to use the API for MicrosoftÆs IIS web server to good effect for go-faster internet apps

• Beating The System: Managing Desktop Shortcuts
  Returning to the Win95 / NT4.0 shell, Dave Jewell shows how to add shortcuts onto the desktop from your installation programs

• 16-Bit Serial Communications
  John Chaytor de-mystifies the Windows 3.1x serial comms API and builds an easy to use Delphi class to get you going

• One Last Compile...
  Components? I can handle them

• Surviving Client/Server: Customized User Administration
  Steve Troxell creates a user administration application which you can easily customize and build into your own client/server systems

• Review: Anchor-P Copy Protection
  There are many dongles around, but this one comes with a Delphi expert to generate customized interface code for your applications; Dave Jewell gives it the eagle eye

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems, including: controlling window startup mode, deploying OCXs, problems with Oracle packages and finding files

• Tips & Tricks
  Hints and helps from readers, including: TApplicationÆs ômissingö events, a heap checking unit, data aware combo box helper routines and data validation

• On The Disk
  All the goodies on the companion disk, which this month has the latest program and data versions of TDMAid, our article index database