Wintech Italia Srl - Publisher
Delphi 2009 Handbook
The guide to what's new in Delphi 2009 for Win32
From the best-selling author of the Mastering Delphi series
Author: Marco Cantù
Publisher: Wintech Italia
Printed and sold on Lulu.com
Pages: 400.
Release Date: December 1st, 2008
Price: 48.50 USD -- about 36 Euro
The special CodeRage 2008 discount has expired. See also the section Lulu tips
below for more information before buying.
The Book
The book covers all the new featrues of Delphi 2009 for Win32, from Unicode support to generics, from
anonymous methods to other language enhancements, from new IDE features to the Ribbon control, from
Vista-enabled controls to DataSnap 2009. This is a brand new book, there is no overlapping
material with the Delphi 2007 Handbook!
The Delphi 2009 Handbook has 400 pages covering exclusively new Delphi 2009 features.
There is no introduction material or anything like that. The book is for developers who use Delphi 2007. If not, consider
buying also the Delphi 2007 Handbook.
Special CodeRage 2008 Limited Offer: Expired
Be among the first few to buy the book during the CodeRage 2008 conference (
December 1st 2008 to December 5th) and get a 20% discount, that is an 8.00 US dollars discount (only 40.50).
Attention: This offer was valid only for the first 60 copies sold and has now expired. The basic CodeRage 2008
discount (lasting until the end of the conference, on Friday December the 5th, and now expired) is of 3.00 USD (45.50). After the CodeRage week,
price will be set back to 48.50.
Lulu Shipping Problems and Tips
Tips for buying on Lulu.com. Lulu has apparently increased its shipping charges significantly. We are
investigating for alternative printing/shipping options. Sorry is this affects you. If you live in continenal Europe or UK,
you should set your currencty to Euros or Pounds and the book will be printed in and shipped from Spain, which will be faster and cheaper.
Notice also that Lulu standard shipping has been "raised", so there are now cheaper options.
If we buy the books and ship them, we won't be able to beat those prices anyway... but we are workign on other solutions.
If shipping is too expensive for you at this time, check back this page in a few weeks. And if you have suggestions, let us know.
Special Autographed Edition
You can buy a special autographed and personalized edition
of the book for an extra 60 USD (that is, a total of 108.50 USD).
Includes as an extra bonus the access to an online forum for discussing the
book with the author. This offer will be enabled soon, contact us over email
for more information.
This personalized edition will be made available on Lulu.com, as a special project that
you can buy in 1 or more copies. How does it work? You order the special edition and
pay the related fee, the author will prepare a page with the dedication and signature,
which will be digitized and bundled in the book PDF. At this point, your personal edition
of the book will be made available on Lulu.com, and you'll receive the link for ordering it.
Expect the average time for the process (signature, printing, delivery) to be about 3 weeks.
Chapters List
This is the list of the book chapters:
Part I: Unicode
- Chapter 1: What is Unicode?
- Chapter 2: The UnicodeString Type
- Chapter 3: Porting to Unicode
Part II: Delphi 2009 and Its Compiler
- Chapter 4: New IDE Features
- Chapter 5: Generics
- Chapter 6: Anonymous Methods
- Chapter 7: More Language and RTL Changes
Part III: VCL and Databases
- Chapter 8: VCL Improvements
- Chapter 9: COM Support in Delphi 2009
- Chapter 10: The Ribbon
- Chapter 11: Datasets and dbExpress
- Chapter 12: DataSnap 2009
Preface, Table of Contents, and Introduction
You can download a PDF of the first 17 pages of the book, comprising the Preface,
the Table of Contents, and the Introduction. This material should give you a much better
idea of the book content.
The download link is at: Delphi2009HandbookPrefaceTocAndIntro.pdf.
Author
Marco Cantù is the author of the best-selling Mastering Delphi book series and is considered a prominent figure in the Delphi community.
He was one of the recipients of the “Spirit of Delphi” award in 1999, together with Dutch Delphi guru Bob Swart. His Mastering Delphi books
won two "Delphi Magazine Readers' Choice Awards". Marco has spoken at dozens of Borland/CodeGear conferences in the US and Europe, and has offered
consulting and training throughout the world
Source Code and Videos
For source code downlaod see www.marcocantu.com/dh2009.
Translations
If you are a publisher (or a translator) interested in a partnership for a localized version of the book,
feel free to contact me. There are ongoing talks for translations to Spanish, Japanese, and German.
Delphi 2007 Handbook
The previous book of Marco Cantù on Delphi 2007 is available on Lulu.com as well.
More information on his personal site,
www.marcocantu.com/dh2007.
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