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This is a rough draft version of a procedure that provides a robust way to open paradox tables in a delphi program

Our Delphi Gazette ran for a vew years in the late 90s. This page archives 1998.

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Found a cryptic version of this code on http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/delphi/network/f702.shtml by narayana and re-arranged and adapted it to produce a non-duplicated list of MAC addresses in a re-usable code snippet. I show you how to include this unit in your project and then how to call it to get a list of the MAC addresses. Most importantly, it does not use NetBios and I have tested it on Win7 32- and 64-bit.

Delphi supports both static and dynamic arrays.

I have an application in Delphi 1-7, using BDE. Is there a way that I can upgrade the BDE so the can work with MSSQL 2005 or 2008. They work fine if MSSQL2000 is is used. Am I on a dead end or there is still hope?

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In Delphi, you can inline assembler code using the asm keyword.

Many objects in Delphi have events you can use to trigger code. For example, when you add a form to your project you have access to the form events such as onCreate, onShow, onHide, onDockDrop, etc. In addition, Delphi offers module level events initialization and finalization sections.

This is a rough draft version of a procedure that provides a robust way to open paradox tables in a delphi program

Our Delphi Gazette ran for a vew years in the late 90s. This page archives 1998.

With the introduction of support for ADO Database access, Borland gave us TADOTable, a quick, easy-to-use component to begin the job of outfitting an existing application with a newer database. But TADOTable is no TTable! It comes with some baggage you can do without.

Delphi for Win32 supports abstract class members using the abstract keyword. You can even instantiate instances of a class that contains abstract members. Then you override each abstract member in a descendant class with Override. Delphi does not support setting an entire class as abstract. You can create an abstract class (a class with one or more abstract methods), but there is no way to tell the compiler to not allow the instantiation of the abstract class. Delphi does not support abstract member properties directly. To implement an abstract properity, make use of abstract methods. That is, you can read a GetPropertyX abstract function and write to a SetPropertyX abstract procedure. In effect, creating  an abstract property.

What are the benefits of Win32/64 native code such as in Delphi over .Net?

Format the IF/Endif for easy reading. I have found this to be easy to read and follow:

To indent the structure and line up the parenthesis makes it, I feel, much easier to read.

Borland Delphi editor tips and tricks.

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