Delphi Course - Part 1

Contents

• Introduction

  • The Object Pascal Language

    • History of Delphi language

    • Language Basics

    • Fundamental Control Elements

    • Data Types

    • Data Structures

    • Delphi Program Structure and Scoping

  • IDE

    • Project Options

    • Project Manager

    • Project Configuration Manager

    • IDE Insight

    • Code Formatting

    • Multi-platform designer

  • REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

    • What are they?

    • When to use them?

    • How to use them

  • What is Unicode?

    • The Unicode standard

    • Unicode string types

  • Generics

    • What are generics?

    • Usage

    • Syntax

    • Creating a generic type

    • Applicability

    • Support in RTL

    • Generics and Generics.Collections

    • Type compatibility rules

    • Classes with Generics

    • Constraints

      • Class Constraints

      • Interface Constraints

  • Generic Containers

    • TList, TQueue, TStack, TDictionary

    • Containers and anonymous methods

    • Generics Interfaces

    • Using TComparer, TEqualityComparer, etc.

  • Anonymous Methods

    • What are anonymous methods?

    • Syntax and semantics

    • Using anonymous methods as variables

    • Anonymous methods as parameters

    • Anonymous methods and local variables (visibility and lifetime)

    • Reference Types

    • Anonymous methods and threads

  • Enumerator

    • for-in loop

    • Enumerators

  • Operator Overloading for Records

  • Class Helpers

  • Record Helpers & Record Helpers for SimpleTypes

  • Extended RTTI

    • RTTI Unit

    • Inspecting types

    • TValue Class

    • Attributes

    • TCustomAttribute Class