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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By : David Cornelius
Book Image

Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By: David Cornelius

Overview of this book

Delphi is a strongly typed, event-driven programming language with a rich ecosystem of frameworks and support tools. It comes with an extensive set of web and database libraries for rapid application development on desktop, mobile, and internet-enabled devices. This book will help you keep up with the latest IDE features and provide a sound foundation of project management and recent language enhancements to take your productivity to the next level. You’ll discover how simple it is to support popular mobile device features such as sensors, cameras, and GPS. The book will help you feel comfortable working with FireMonkey and styles and incorporating 3D user interfaces in new ways. As you advance, you’ll be able to build cross-platform solutions that not only look native but also take advantage of a wide array of device capabilities. You’ll also learn how to use embedded databases, such as SQLite and InterBase ToGo, synchronizing them with your own custom backend servers or modules using the powerful RAD Server engine. The book concludes by sharing tips for testing and deploying your end-to-end application suite for a smooth user experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to deliver modern enterprise applications using Delphi confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming Power
5
Section 2: Cross-Platform Power
11
Section 3: Mobile Power
15
Section 4: Server Power

Managing databases

To get started working with databases, we need a tool to manage them. Sure, you can write SQL to create tables, indices, views, and so on, but database management tools do that tedious work for us. There are many tools available that work with a variety of database products. First, we'll cover the one that comes with Delphi for managing InterBase databases.

Using the InterBase Server Manager and IBConsole

All versions of Delphi come with a tool for working with InterBase, IBConsole, and some sample databases (if you included InterBase when you installed Delphi). When working with InterBase on your Windows desktop, you must start the local InterBase server with the InterBase Server Manager (if it's not already running). This can be found in the InterBase2020\bin folder of your Delphi installation and is called IBMgr.exe; it may also be found in the Windows Start menu as "Embarcadero InterBase 2020." Its interface is very simple:

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