Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide

Chapter 1. Programming in Delphi

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Delphi Product Family

• Delphi: What and Why

• A Little History

• The Delphi IDE

• A Tour of Your Project's Source

• Tour of a Small Application

• What's So Great About Events, Anyway?

• Turbo Prototyping

• Extensible Components and Environment

• The Top 10 IDE Features You Must Know and Love

This chapter is intended to provide you with a high-level overview of Delphi, including history, feature sets, how Delphi fits into the world of Windows development, and general tidbits of information you need to know to be a Delphi developer. And just to get your technical juices flowing, this chapter also discusses the need-to-know features of the Delphi IDE, pointing out some of those hard-to-find features that even seasoned ...