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Delphi Programming Projects

By : William Duarte
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Delphi Programming Projects

By: William Duarte

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform programming language and software development kit that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. With the help of seven practical projects, this book will guide you through the best practices, Delphi Run-Time Library (RTL) resources, and design patterns. Whether you use the Visual Component Library (VCL) or FireMonkey (FMX) framework, these design patterns will be implemented in the same way in Delphi, using Object Pascal. In the first few chapters, you will explore advanced features that will help you build rich applications using the same code base for both mobile and desktop projects. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to implement microservice architecture in Delphi. As you get familiar with the various aspects of Delphi, you will no longer need to maintain source code for similar projects, program business rules on screens, or fill your forms with data access components. By the end of this book, you will have gained an understanding of the principles of clean code and become proficient in building robust and scalable applications in Delphi.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Repositories

Repositories, by definition, are places to store data. However, in the pattern presented in this chapter, it has nothing to do with the GoF, nor does it resemble Data Access Objects (DAO). In fact, we use this pattern as a separation layer where they will work with the database, regardless of the business rule, which will hold the managers or controllers in an MVC pattern.

Imagine the data module of Delphi, and imagine that Delphi, even being RAD, is fully object-oriented. Did you imagine the data module? Therefore, our default repository may even present itself with the data module, so we must separate the business layer, the view, and the management of the entire system from the database layer. This will become clearer in the coming sections.

SQL Server repository &...