This book will make you a faster Delphi developer, it doesn't matter if you are just starting out, or have been using Delphi since version 1, you will find all sorts of tips, tricks and hacks to boost your productivity.
Make your Delphi code better by reading this book! You will find numerous tips, tricks, techniques and tools to enhance and improve code. How does your code stack up? Are you writing code that will be usable for years, or are you heading towards a dystopian maintenance apocalypse?
A feature I've always liked from cnPack is now available in Delphi 11.3. That's highlighting the same word under the cursor in the Editor. Watch it on YouTube.
A new feature in Delphi 11.3 is the ability to show your executable in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on a build configuration. See how it works here.
It can occasionally be the case that the Toolbars in the Delphi IDE become broken. You can fix them using the registry editor. And you can also customise them for better productivity. Find out all about it here.
Rather than change the build configuration for each project in a project group, why not change them all at once? Watch here.
Here are some easy shortcuts for selecting projects within a project group.
In the previous video we looked at zip compression using TZipFile in Delphi, but you can also use the 7-Zip DLL for compression and decompression of many file types. Support for this can be found in the Jedi Code Library (JCL). Watch on YouTube.
Can you extract files using TZipFile using multiple threads? Does it improve performance? Find out in this video.
Did you know that 2 is treated differently from 2.0. 2 is an integer, and 2.0 is a floating point number, and this can be important if you want to stop your satellites from crashing back to Earth. Find out how.
Introduced in Delphi 10.4 are a couple of shortcuts for changing the relative size of rows and columns on TGridPanel. These make it much easier to set the exact values for the percentual rows and columns. Learn these shortcuts here.
I'm presenting at the ADUG Symposium this year and I'm inviting you to see my talk on refactoring in Delphi. Check out this sneak peek on Refactoring in Delphi.