Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2 EAN: 9780672310249 ISBN: 0672310244 Label: Sams Manufacturer: Sams Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 967 Publication Date: 1997-07 Publisher: Sams Sales Rank: 2008588 Studio: Sams
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Product DescriptionClient/Server Developer's Guide with Delphi 3 takes an authoritative, real-world approach to learning database design and creating full-featured client/server applications. Focusing on the more advanced features and topics, this guide makes you a proficient Delphi developer. Written by an industry expert, it helps you fully understand this powerful development environment and use it advantageously. With tips, techniques, and practical examples, this resource delivers the information you need to improve your skills, expand your knowledge, and achieve optimum results. Learn the concepts to: master key tasks; exploit ActiveX technologies with Delphi 3; and use the Delphi 3 TDatabase object to manage online transactions. Build the applications that: create database components and experts; build complex reports with Quick Report components and Object Pascal; and develop applications that connect to Oracle, ODBC Compliant, ANSI SQL Standard, and MS SQL Server databases.
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Rating: - Well-done, Mr. Henderson, very well-done
When this book arrived on my desk, I didn't know what to think. Would it be another 1000 page paperweight or something I could actually use? Fortunately, it was the latter. I can't say enough good things about this book. It's the best Delphi book I've ever come across, and I have most of them. There is an obsession with detail in this book that is refreshing in these days of 10-pound books that say little and inform even less. I can only imagine the amount of work that went into getting ... Read More
Rating: - Yikes!
This is good. This is better than good. I consider myself a pretty good technical writer, but I've never been able to pull off this combination of nitpickingly complete technical detail, utterly clear tutorials, and friendly, readable prose.
If you're new to Delphi, you need to read this book. It covers important functional details that are not clearly described anywhere else.
If you're an experienced Delphi programmer, you need to read this book. It covers all the practical ... Read More
Rating: - A wonderfully comprehensive tome on Delphi C/S Development
I finally found a copy of this book on an online auction after several frustrating calls to the book's publisher, Sams. Seems that Henderson's book isn't being reprinted due to a dispute between him and the publisher despite repeated requests from the Delphi community to at least keep the D3 version in circulation, if not update it.
This is a wonderful book. It's comprehensive and covers the things you need to know to build database, client/server, and n-tier apps in Delphi. The chapter ... Read More
Rating: - Client-Server Developers need this book
I've read about 30 Delphi books over the past 3 years. Most of them move down my bookshelf to the floor, but this one has real staying power. It's the only one that has *specific* help for connecting to and using SQL databases, and has very good information on Borland's Database Explorer. Additional information on using a Data Dictionary, Data Modules, SQL, and an excellent overview of building a project using the repository and inheritance make this book a great tutorial on Delphi, even if you're not doing ... Read More
Rating: - Well written, but CD is sadly incomplete.
I found the text to be excellent, however most (or all) of the Silverrun modeling products that were supposed to be on the CD are not. And they are no longer available from the publisher, Silverrun technologies, or the author. You can download later versions of the Silverrun software, but they are crippled demo versions that do not allow you to create some of the larger models built in the exercises. So all you can do on those excercises is read the book, and do the programming. Much of the modelling in the first ... Read More
- Well-done, Mr. Henderson, very well-done
- Well written, but CD is sadly incomplete.
