Now available: Delphi 6 Developer's Guide by Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco, with chapters by Bob Swart, Dan Miser, David Sampson, Nick Hodges, and Ray Konopka. Bob Swart has written the Active Server Objects chapter, where Micha Somers offered helpful assistance in the section on debugging Active Server Objects (in the IDE) using MTS and COM+ Delphi 6 Developer's Guide Introduction Part I: Development Essentials Programming in Delphi The Object Pascal Language Adventures in Messaging Part II: Advanced Techniques Writing Portable Code Multithreaded Techniques Dynamic Link Libraries Part III: Database Development Delphi Database Architecture Database Development with dbExpress Database Development with dbGo for ADO Part IV: Component-Based Development Component Architecture: VCL and CLX VCL Component Building Advanced VCL Component Building CLX Component Development Packages to the Max COM Development Windows Shell Programming Using the Open Tools API Part V: Enterprise Development Transactional Development with COM+/MTS CORBA Development BizSnap Development: Writing SOAP-Based Web Services DataSnap Development Part VI: Internet Development ASP Development - by Bob Swart (with Micha Somers) Building WebSnap Applications Wireless Development Index

Ray Konopka has written chapter 13, David Sampson chapter 19, Dan Miser chapter 21, Bob Swart chapter 22 and Nick Hodges chapter 23. You can now order Delphi 6 Developer's Guide from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk (with significant discounts). Note that I get a small commission for each on-line order from my website (so thanks in advance for those of you who order(ed) using the links above).