Delphi Pro Bob Swart shows you how to convert any XML data packet or document (using XSL Transformation rules) to a browser-readable HTML format with a new component called the TXSLPageProducer.

Bob Swart shows you how to use the WebBroker PageProducer and TableProducer components (found in Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix) to produce static HTML pages for reporting.

Bob Swart shows you how using Delphi 6 Actions and the new set of components called ActionBands can add the customization functionality (and more) to your apps.

Bob Swart shows you how to post a new or changed record to a dbExpress dataset when dbExpress provides only unidirectional, read-only datasets.

This 10-Minute Solution gives you three methods for modifying the button style to accommodate multiple lines.

This 10-Minute Solution shows you how to move your application from the BDE to dbExpress, the cross-platform, data access layer found in Kylix and future versions of Delphi, by replacing BDE data access components with corresponding dbExpress components.

Bob Swart teaches you how to use a small code routine to extract all values from a multivalue input field in WebBroker applications.

Delphi Pro Bob Swart shows you how to write Delphi packages, dynamically load them, and create dynamic component instances in a way that can be the basis for a dynamic application plug-in architecture.

Learn the mechanics of fitting a form's borders around a bitmap.

This 10-Minute Solution describes how to use the Windows Registry to set which programs you launch at startup and which you want to call up manually.

The solution describes how to use the TListBox component onto a form and write an event handler for the OnMouseMove event so that a ListBox control will track mouse movement.

The solution describes the best way to preven users from using Ctrl-Alt-Del and Alt-Tab while an application is running.

Brendan Delumpa shows you two ways to resize the drop-down list of a TComboBox so that you can see the complete text of its items.

In Delphi, every form has a BorderStyle property of bsToolWindow, so you might think that all you have to do is set the borderstyle of the main form of the application to bsToolWindow and you'll be able to hide the application from the task bar.

Delphi Pro Brendan Delumpa shows you how to get around the TMediaPlayer component's inability to close the CD tray.

Creating System Tray applications is actually a snap, but finding the information you need could drive you over the edge. Delphi Pro Brendan Delumpa helps you figure out where to look.

Delphi Pro Brendan Delumpa describes an amazingly simple way to trap all messages sent to the Application object's window using a method called HookMainWindow.

Brendan Delumpa shows you three different ways to find out how many total lines there are in an ASCII file.

There are a couple of ways to do incremental searching with list boxes. One way is hard and slow and involves going through the list item by item—the other approach is easy and fast. Brendan Delumpa shows you the quick and easy option.

All windowed controls have a parent, or control, of some sort that maintains visual control (for example, display) over it. The solution describes how to change the parentage of a control to isolate its visual control.