Chapter 1. Delphi Basics
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles and no code
- Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime
- Customizing TDBGrid
- Using the owner's draw combos and listboxes
- Creating a stack of embedded forms
- Manipulating JSON
- Manipulating and transforming XML documents
- I/O in the twenty-first century – knowing streams
- Putting your VCL application in the tray
- Creating a Windows service
- Associating a file extension with your application on Windows
