Special Edition Using Delphi 3 [Paperback]

Todd Miller (Author), David Powell (Author), Roland Bouchereau (Author), Julian Bucknall (Author), Bill Curtis (Author), Scott Frolich (Author), Joe C. Hecht (Author), Chaim Krause (Author), Mark Pritchard (Author), Noel Rice (Author), J. W. Rider (Author), Quentin Sarafinchan (Author), Stephen A. Schafer (Author), Eric Uber (Author)

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Written by Borland's technical support team, this updated version answers their most commonly asked questions from Delphi programmers. With the release of Windows NT and the Windows NT-specific controls available in Delphi, it is anticipated that Delphi's user base will continue to grow-and so will the need for a complete reference. - Provides extensive coverage of SQL and client/server programming

- Covers multimedia, graphics, and automation

- Shows how to create ActiveX controls and use them to build powerful applications

Product Details

• Paperback: 1043 pages
• Publisher: Que Pub (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789711184
• ISBN-13: 978-0789711182
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,720,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a very good book to learn DELPHI, February 24, 1998

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Frank Fortino (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Special Edition Using Delphi 3 (Paperback)

USING DELPHI 3 is not a very good book to get you started learning DELPHI. It seems to just list features and functions without explaining (in a simplified format) how and why. The examples are also incomplete and a little criptic. Maybe others got some help from this book, but I found very little that I could use. Of the 12 books I have on DELPHI the best is MASTERING DELPHI 3 by Marco Cantu, followed by DELPHI UNLEASHED by Charles Calvert.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for intermediate Delphi programmers!, September 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Special Edition Using Delphi 3 (Paperback)

If you have programmed in another language before, but not Delphi, this is the book for you. After a quick overview of general programming concepts, Pascal data types, etc., it goes into a thorough description of the Delphi 3 language and features. I did wish that it had more info on database programming--5 chapters wasn't enough for me!

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Delphi Book I ever Bought, November 7, 2009

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Toby Allen "Toby Allen" (Cork, Ireland.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Special Edition Using Delphi 3 (Paperback)

This is without doubt the best Delphi book I ever bought. This is the book that explains all the great changes that were made in Delphi 3 (major structural changes from D1 and D2). I wrote a custom TDataSet class for a custom Database my company used with the explanation provided in this book. It laid the foundation of my Delphi Career.