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June 3, 2011

Starting to Publish Delphi XE Handbook Source

I've started publishing the source code for the now complete Delphi XE Handbook. The book will follow soon, in PDF and printed versions.

I've started publishing the source code of my new book, Delphi XE Handbook, which is now complete (at last!) and waiting only final revision. The book will have 4 chapters and total about 100 pages (yes, a short book). It will covere all new Delphi XE features but DataSnap. The four chapters cover:

  1. IDE
  2. Extended toolset (including Subversion support)
  3. Compiler and Core RTL (including RegEx and Threading)
  4. Libraries (including Azure support)

The book will follow in a matter of a couple of weeks in PDF, and a biut alter in the printed versions.

As you can see above, for now there 3 examples from chapter 3, with some aoorted RTL featrues and some threading demos. I might still changes the anynomous threads example, to show a possible different coding style, before the book is final. I'll add more examples (the current total is 17) after making a final check on them. Source code is part of my unified books code repository at http://code.marcocantu.com/p/marcodelphibooks/. You can browse the book specific code online or use SVN to get only the delphixehandbook  subfolder, as in:

               svn co -r HEAD http://code.marcocantu.com/svn/marcocantu/marcodelphibooks/delphixehandbook

BTW, I'll tweet (rather than blog) as I post new new examples. Follow my twitter account if you want to get notified.

posted by marcocantu @ 5:12PM | 3 Comments [0 Pending]




 

3 Comments

Starting to Publish Delphi XE Handbook Source  

 Why is DataSnap excluded?  Was it covered well in the
previous handbook, and there haven't been enough
enough changes between Delphi 2010 and Delphi XE to
warrant more coverage?
Comment by Bruce McGee on June 3, 18:43

Starting to Publish Delphi XE Handbook Source  

Bruce,

  there have been some significant changes, worth a good 
description, but I was quite busy over the past months, 
and decided that if I want the book out I had better cut 
that portion. The most relevant changes, though, are 
covered in my freely available DataSnap REST White 
paper. I could bind it to the book, but since it is free 
from Embarcadero, it won't add a lot of value... but 
require some editing work anyway.
Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on June 3, 21:15

Starting to Publish Delphi XE Handbook Source  

I gave up on Twitter.  The signal-to-noise ratio is ridiculously small.

So please continue to post to your blog and Facebook. 
Comment by David on June 4, 20:45


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