Borland Delphi 6 for Windows, Developer's Guide

The Developer’s Guidedescribes intermediate and advanced development topics, such as building client/server database applications, writing custom components, and creating Internet Web server applications. It allows you to build applications that meet many industry-standard specifications such as SOAP, TCP/IP, COM+, and ActiveX. Many of the advanced features that support Web development, advanced XML technologies, and database development require components or wizards that are not available in all versions of Delphi.
The Developer’s Guideassumes you are familiar with using Delphi and understand fundamental Delphi programming techniques. For an introduction to Delphi programming and the integrated development environment (IDE), see the Quick Start manual or the online Help.