Contents
Issue 37, September 1998
News
More updates from the world of
Delphi development.
Delphi 4 Bugs And Fixes
Hallvard Vassbotn and Dave Jewell provide news of some glitches in the
first
release of Delphi 4.
Integrating With Outlook And Exchange
Berend de Boer shows how to create applications which integrate with MicrosoftÆs Outlook and Exchange.
One Last Compile...
Rolling back the frontiers.
Algorithms Alfresco: ThatÆs The Way It Goes
Julian Bucknall explains sorting algorithms: the good, the bad and the
ugly. Get your deck of playing cards out, itÆs time for some lab work! Which is it to be, bubble, shaker, selection, insertion, Shell or quicksort?
Beating the System: Windows 98 File Associations, Part 2
Dave Jewell concludes the construction of his Windows file association
un-mangler, so now you can happily undo the damage wreaked by a certain
well-known software manufacturer...
Dynamic Arrays
Arrays are incredibly useful and crop up in just about every project we
create. But ôout of the boxö they are rather inflexible as you need to
decide upfront how big your array should be. Not any more, Brian Long explains
how to make your arrays dynamic: resizeable and powerful, for Delphi 1
right through to Delphi 4, with its new built-in dynamic arrays feature.
ICon 98: Conference Report
David Baer is fresh back from the annual Inprise conference, held this year in Denver. He brings us his own personal report with all the highlights and lowlights (what was that, they ran out of beer...?!).
Surviving Client/Server: ODBMS In Practice, Part 2
Steve Troxell continues his examination of object oriented database systems,
with some practical Delphi examples using Jasmine from Computer Associates.
Under Construction: Delphi 4 Web Broker Technology
Bob Swart has been checking out whatÆs new in internet application support
in Delphi 4, now available as an add-on for Professional Edition users
too.
COM Corner: ActiveX Data Binding In Delphi
Steve Teixeira shows how easy it is to create ôboundö ActiveX controls in
Delphi 4 using the wonders of COM programming, able to work with data from
whatever source you like...
The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: component templates,
printing, exporting to Excel, writing mail applications, user-friendly
BDE error dialogs and capturing output from DOS programs.