Delphi Basics

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles and without any code
• Changing the style of your application at runtime
• Customizing TDBGrid
• Using owner-draw combos and listboxes
• Making an owner-draw control aware of the VCL styles
• Creating a stack of embedded forms
• Manipulating JSON
• Manipulating and transforming XML documents
• I/O in the 21st century—knowing the streams
• Creating a Windows Service
• Associating a file extension with your application on Windows
• Being coherent with the Windows look and feel using TTaskDialog
• The amazing TFDTable—indices, aggregations, views, and SQL
• ETL made easy—TFDBatchMode
• Data integration made easy—TFDLocalSQL