Contents
Issue 52, December 1999

• News
  Keep up with all that’s new.

• Data-Aware HTML Controls, 2
  Steve Troxell concludes his two-part article on data-aware HTML controls: a neat and easy way to generate web pages with content driven from databases, using markup codes in HTML pages, so website designers with no programming or database skills can easily create database-driven websites.

• Under Construction: Delphi 5 InternetExpress, 3
  Bob Swart continues his coverage of Delphi 5's InternetExpress, which combines WebBroker and MIDAS technologies, producing HTML and XML for ultra-thin clients.

• TRichEdits And Embedded Objects
  Brian Long demonstrates how the standard Windows rich edit control, encapsulated in Delphi’s TRichEdit component, can be used to display bitmaps through the wonders of OLE.

• Beating the System: Taming The File System, 2
  Dave Jewell continues development of his own Delphi encapsulation of the file system: easy to use, deploy and extend in any way you like! This month he covers folder navigation, tree walking and more.

• ADO Transaction Processing
  Guy Smith-Ferrier unravels the intricacies of using ADO for transaction processing: comparing it to the Borland Database Engine’s transaction support and covering topics such as nested transactions, cursors, transaction isolation levels and more.

• Algorithms Alfresco: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
  Julian Bucknall had a shock when flying back home to Colorado from DCon 99. He shares the results of a conversation with a strange bearded red-suited gentleman with us here, covering juicy little tidbits like bitsets, spell checkers, Soundex, long string gotchas and more.

• Serving Up The Registry
  David Baer develops an easy-to-use Windows registry component, with insights into the registry and into component development. Features include easy saving and restoring of form size and location and, of course, minimal coding.

• One Last Compile...
  Nothing was stirring, not even a wheely-mouse.

• COM Corner: An Introduction to COM+
  Steve Teixeira brings us a foretaste of how COM will look in Windows 2000.

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: using TWebBrowser, Paradox file corruption, browsing for a computer name, form painting and multi-processor  machines.