Borland Delphi 6 Developer's Guide

by Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco

Borland(r) Delphi 6 Developer's Guideis a new edition of the #1 best-selling Delphi book by authors Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco. Steve and Xavier are of the winners of the Delphi Informant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672321157
• ISBN13: 9780672321153
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 1200 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 2.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book!

As I read through the pages in "Delphi 6 Developers Guide", I simply learned more than I expected (about Delphi 6). It compares with other programming languages, it has a CD included which contains All of the examples used in the book, and it covers everything you can do in Delphi 6. Chapter 2 in the book gives you a nice review of the what you need to now to continue the book (I am happy that they included it); The Object Pascal Language.In other words: I love the book, and I always use it as a reference book, if I forget what something is or how to use it. I highly recommend this book to everyone who wants to become a better Delphi programmer or just to those who want to know Delphi 6 better!Very well written; Easy to understand; Excellent book! Get it!

If you want to become a Delphi expert, read this.

Simply put, if you want to not only learn Delphi, but learn some professional development tricks that can take you a long time to learn on your own or you want to learn how to be a better Delphi developer, you have to read this book. If you just want to learn Delphi in-and-of-its-own, then the Borland developer's guide is enough. Pacheco, et al have included a lot of important, "real-world" and useable knowledge in this book and I know many people that overlook the breadth of knowledege imparted in its pages. Read this if you want to be more than just a "Delphi" developer.~ Michael Nigohosian, author - "The Secret Path to Contract Programming Riches: An Expert Consultant's Step-by-Step Guide That..."

Well Rounded Title

This is an excellent book, covers the entire Delphi 6 product about as well as any single book could. The chapters on the COM related technologies are very helpful. The New Internet features of Delphi 6 are also given in depth treatment. If you do Delphi 6, this book should be within reach at all times.

Puts you on the road to Delphi Guruhood

Unlike Cantu's Mastering Delphi 6, Delphi Developer's Guide is intended for those who are able to digest the Borland manuals and wish to take their Delphi knowledge even further. Absolutely no fluff here, every page contains interesting and useful info and the book as a whole is full of useful techniques you can use in real-world projects.All aspects of Delphi 6 programming are covered here: from Win32 API calls to threading to CORBA to writing your own VCL components to advanced Delphi databasing topics and more importantly, each is covered in depth.My favorite parts include the section where the author describes in very readable manner how Delphi evolved from the first version to version 6, highlighting the important differences and improvements introduced with each new version.Another is the chapter on threads which explained thread basics very well and went a lot further (more than I was ready for actually). This chapter alone is so densely packed with info that it alone could be worth a third the price of the book!

A excellent book for Delphi

Unlike D5DG, this book doesn't copy most chapters from the previous version. Many chapters are new to the readers, and the remain chapters are rewrite for Delphi 6.It's very useful for the reader who ever have the D5DG. And it's also very useful for the newer, because the CD-ROM contains entire text of D5DG and D6DG.