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Delphi 2009 Handbook
Préface :
The guide to what's new in CodeGear Delphi 2009 by best-selling Delphi author Marco Cantu.
This is a book about CodeGear Delphi 2009.
You won't find an introduction to Delphi programming, its Object Pascal language or its Visual Component Library in it. In this book you can read only about new features of Delphi 2009 for Win32 in each of these areas.
The book covers Delphi 2009 Unicode support, the new language features (such as generics and anonymous methods), the improvements of the IDE, the new classes of the Run Time Library, the new components of the VCL (including the Ribbon control), and the extensions to the database architecture and the DataSnap multi-tier technology.

Delphi Graphics and Game Programming Exposed with DirectX 7
Préface :
Delphi Graphics and Game Programming Exposed! with DirectX is a comprehensive reference describing high-performance graphics and game programming techniques in the Delphi development environment.
Author John Ayres begins with a discussion of basic game programming and graphics concepts, and moves quickly into an introduction of DirectX, which gives Delphi developers a high-performance interface to system-level hardware while maintaining the benefits of the Windows operating system. Palettes, sprite animation, collision detection, and sound and music are also discussed.

Delphi Kylix Database Development
Préface :
The aim of this book is to teach cross-platform database programming to Delphi 6 or Kylix programmers.
The book will assume the reader has a basic understanding of databases, such as what tables, rows, columns, fields, indexes, etc. are. It will also assume the reader has a working knowledge of Delphi and/or Kylix.

C++ Les fondamentaux du langage 
Préface :
Ce livre s'adresse à tout développeur désireux d'apprendre le langage C++, dans le cadre de ses études ou pour consolider son expérience professionnelle. Le premier chapitre présente les bases de la syntaxe du langage ainsi que l'organisation des programmes.