Accelerator Keys are a handy feature that lets you use the keyboard to quickly access a specific control on the screen. By adding an ampersand (&) before a letter in the caption of a label, you can create a shortcut key for that control. For example, if you have a label that says “&Name” and a text box next to it, you can press Alt+N to jump to the text box and enter your name. How cool is that? To learn more about how this works, watch this video.
I rarely have physical copies of programming books, but here are three Delphi books that I have. Watch on YouTube
Delph High Performance 2nd Edition on Amazon or Packt.
Obviously, DataSets, DataSources, Queries, Tables, Providers and DB Connections can go into a Datamodule, but what else should go in? Watch to find out.
Should the TDataSource go on a Form or in a DataModule? In this video, Alister attempts to answer this troubling question.
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In this video, we will look at a technique for dependency inversion using anonymous methods. It's a bit of a hack but easy to retrofit to existing applications. We will also do some more traditional dependency injection via property injection.
A useful trick is to inspect a string in the debugger and then paste it directly back into your code. This can come in handy - want to learn more? Then watch here.
Class constructors can be a powerful tool, but they may not always behave as you expect - as I found out in this video.
It's a very easy mistake to forget to escape the ampersand character on labels and menus. Here is how to fix it.
A small enhancement is the improved icons in the Delphi code editor that look much nice when running with High DPI. Although this video was only recorded at 100%.