Chapter 1. Delphi Basics

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Changing your application's look and feel with the VCL style and without any code
• Changing the style of your application at runtime
• Customizing TDBGrid
• Using owner draw combos and listboxes
• Making an owner draw control aware of the VCL styles
• Creating a stack of embedded forms
• Manipulating JSON
• Manipulating and transforming XML documents
• I/O in the 21st century – knowing the streams
• Creating a Windows service
• Associating a file extension with your application on Windows
• Being coherent with the Windows look and feel using TTaskDialog