Delphi Component Design

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Summary: Best Delphi book I have seen!
Review: Delphi Component Design, is by far the best Delphi book,I have seen. I have all of the Borland Press Books, as well as several(10+) other Delphi books. All of these books have there strong points but nothing compares to this Book! It covers RTTI, and Code Optimization better than any other book. To sum it up, this book starts were the other books left off.

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Summary: Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Review: Gorgeous! It is far beyond the standard cookbook approach. It has given me a greater insight into the guts of Delphi and is the only Delphi book that I have read for pleasure

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Gorgeous! It is far beyond the standard cookbook approach. It has given me a greater insight into the guts of Delphi and is the only Delphi book that I have read for pleasure

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Summary: Expert oriented book.
Review: It covers many important subjects: RTTI, Code Optimization, OLE Automation server and many more. Author has perfect theoretical approach to the matter. But I think more examples would make this book even better. Anyway I recommend it to all Delphi component experienced developers, but NOT to beginers.

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Summary: Don't even bother trying to buy from A1 Tech Book
Review: The book is a breath of fresh air and covers a good basic foundation: attitudes of programmers, basic structures of OOP with objects:- various virtual methods, basic construction of building blocks, streams, other forms of communication and a few peculiar things to watch out on. I personally have no interest in databases were some may have. 32 bit is the way to go as I can now see access to the windows API with the assistance of the book and Delphi Pro.
Danny points out its not necessary to understand every base object behind the object you are building off from.
This is true if you wish to add a minor adjustment to a component. But this I believe this is a major miss conception if you are building a new and different component. And for this purpose the book dose not begin to address threading, what is happing in TObject, as TObject is not in Delphi Pro to view and is the fundamental object that every object is built from!!!!!!. This is no different than the Pascal 7 days when every one wanted to read the OOP code for them selves at an enormous cost for a copy.
I'm not saying the book should cover the windows API as that's another subject on its own, but how a action is handled through the Objects, or how a windows event is managed though OOP:- draw, mouse button.....
I need a book that should cover enough to be able to install an object into a base object like a speed button into an editor or a listbox connected to a speed button so something like TCombobox or TGraph is understood how each piece interacts and is constructed together as a unit. When the OOPer's get hold of this understanding the tools for Delphi could become available will become limitless to the users. VB definitely has this advantage over Delphi today because we do not understand enough to create something different or new. Give it another go Danny with an extra book, as it is easy to understand what you have written, be cursus to get such a difficult subject right. And you have made a breath of fresh air already into the subject that is very useful to those that have read your first book but some of us need to go further.

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Summary: The most valueable Delphi resource on the planet
Review: This book is all about what goes behind the curtains. If are a crazy developer like me and interested in knowing how Delphi designers implemented different mechanisms such as WIndows messaging OLE COM this title is a must

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Summary: Don't even bother trying to buy from A1 Tech Book
Review: This guys are crooks. They advertise a book they DO NOT have, get your money and never reply to your e-mails.

The book is supposed to be great, by the way.