Contents: The Delphi Magazine
Issue 71, July 2001

• News
  Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.

• Stack-Based Objects In Delphi
  Pedro Agulló Soliveres demonstrates techniques to optimise object construction and destruction.

• Algorithms Alfresco: Distribution And Radix Sorts
  Julian Bucknall explains the mysteries of these sorting algorithms that don’t use key comparisons to do their work: how they accomplish their tasks and when they will be of best use.

• Delphi Meets C# Via COM
  Craig Murphy explains how Delphi can meet the C# language with a little help from COM. With the release of the .NET platform, Microsoft is making C# its language of choice. However, as interoperabilty is becoming more and more important, it is possible to use C# objects in Delphi and vice versa. Craig demonstrates how to use C# and Delphi together and why you may want to.

• Under Construction: Kylix Desktop Does CGI Too
  Bob Swart shows how to create web server applications using just the Desktop version of Kylix (which has just been dramatically reduced in price!), including using dbExpress to develop database web applications.

• One Last Compile...
  More Joy Of TClientDataSets.

• ADO.NET Explored
  Guy Smith-Ferrier explains the successor to ADO and shows how to make full use of Microsoft's latest database access technology in Delphi.

• Beating The System: A Programming Pespective On Windows XP
  Dave Jewell has been checking out what the newest version of the Microsoft operating system we all know and love has in store for the folks at the sharp end: developers creating applications for the platform! Keep ahead of the game with Dave’s overview.

• Review: What’s New In Delphi 6?
  Brian Long kicks off our in-depth Delphi 6 review double-act with a tour of all that’s new in the latest incarnation: what is it, what do you do with it, and is it any good?

• Review: Delphi 6: A Cross-Platform Development Perspective
  Dave Jewell takes up the reins from Brian to examine the cross-platform aspects of Delphi 6: specifically, the new CLX framework, built on the Qt library, and what performance and deployment issues it raises for Windows developers (hint: there may be some surprises!).

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including: retrieving lost IDE windows, working with SDF files, type library editing, hiding yourself from the Windows Task Manager, and solving problems with packages.