Chapter 1. Delphi Basics

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Changing your application's look and feel with the VCL style and without any code

• Changing the style of your application at runtime

• Customizing TDBGrid

• Using owner draw combos and listboxes

• Making an owner draw control aware of the VCL styles

• Creating a stack of embedded forms

• Manipulating JSON

• Manipulating and transforming XML documents

• I/O in the 21st century – knowing the streams

• Creating a Windows service

• Associating a file extension with your application on Windows

• Being coherent with the Windows look and feel using TTaskDialog