Chapter 1. Delphi Basics
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles 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
- The amazing TFDTable—indices, aggregations, views, and SQL
- ETL made easy—TFDBatchMode
- Data integration made easy—TFDLocalSQL
