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[...]... Server 381 Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook 12 - Table of Contents Upgrading the Client 382 Advanced Features of ThinPlus2009 383 The DataSnap Administrative Interface .387 Conclusion 390 Index 391 Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook Introduction - 13 Introduction First introduced by Borland on February 14th 1995, Delphi has a long and... http://www.marcocantu.com/dh2009 I have an online mailing list based on a Google group you can sign up from my web site I also run an online newsgroup with a section devoted to discuss my books and their content, available on the web (in the section called marco cantu”) at: http:/ /delphi. newswhat.com Finally, feel free to drop me an email at my public address: marco. cantu@gmail.com Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook. .. implementation, and address porting and compatibility issues, respectively ● Chapter 1: What is Unicode? ● Chapter 2: The Unicode String Type ● Chapter 3: Porting to Unicode Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook 20 - Part I: Unicode Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook Chapter 1: What is Unicode? - 21 Chapter 1: What Is Unicode? Unicode is the name of an international character set, encompassing the symbols of all written... chapter, in Delphi 2009 the Char type has changed and the old Char type of Delphi 1 through Delphi 2007 is now called AnsiChar Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook 24 - Chapter 1: What is Unicode? procedure TForm30.btnAscii8Click(Sender: TObject); var I: Integer; begin ClearGrid; for I := 32 to 255 do begin StringGrid1.Cells [I mod 16 + 1, I div 16 + 1] := AnsiChar (I); end; end; In previous versions of Delphi. .. self-publishing my books, not only on Delphi, as I ended up also with a volume on social networks Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook Introduction - 17 Beside writing, I keep myself busy with consulting (mostly on applications architectures), helping selling Delphi in Italy, doing code reviews, Delphi mentoring, and general consulting for developers I'm also a frequent speaker at Delphi and general developer... doing the Ansi to Wide conversion (at times, slowing down operations) Even in past versions of Delphi you could pass a WideString value to a 'W' API, by calling it explicitly For example, the UnicodeWinApi program (which can be compiled both in Delphi2 007 and Delphi 2009) , has the code: Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook ... central element of Delphi 2009 and there are many issues to address, this chapter focuses only on the theory behind Unicode and other characters encodings, while the next one will focus on the key elements of Delphi implementation 3 Unicode includes also technical symbols, punctuations, and many other characters used in writing text, even if not part of any alphabet Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook 22 -... in Delphi 2009, or at least added to Delphi since Delphi 2007 was released (as BlackFish SQL and some of the dbExpress metadata extensions were included in Delphi 2007 updates) 2 This figure (4,000 pages) is my estimate of the amount of material I've written in books about Delphi over the last 13 years That is, without considering chapters that were included in subsequent editions of my Mastering Delphi. .. drop me an email at my public address: marco. cantu@gmail.com Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook 18 - Introduction Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook Part I: Unicode - 19 Part I: Unicode The first part of this book focuses on Unicode, the international character encoding standard that Delphi 2009 supports for the first time The three chapters in this part introduce the topic, describe the actual implementation,... focus for a second on some higher-level political issues 1 The current version of the Delphi compiler, in fact, is 20.00 This is highlighted by the value of the VER200 define, mentioned in the section “Compiler Version” at the beginning of Chapter 7 Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook 14 - Introduction The Status of Delphi As I've just mentioned, the creation of the CodeGear division and then the acquisition . page: http://www.marcocantu.com/dh2009/videos.html Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook 4 - Preface This book is a sequel to Delphi 2007 Handbook, as it doesn't. writing it. And I hope you like Delphi 2009, one of the best versions of Delphi ever, as I did. Marco Cantù, Delphi 2009 Handbook Table of Contents - 5 Table